Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overgrown altar boy, got a respectful hand from the crowd. But most of the 18,491 spectators were obviously rooting for New York University's white-uniformed Violets, who had won 19 straight, had stayed undefeated longer than any other major college team. They were missing their star set-shot artist, Don Forman, out with an aching back...
...consistent defeats inflicted by Dixie squads on Northern teams seems to indicate that Southern lacrosse is superior to the New England brand. But the annual North-South all-star game shows the boys in blue with a one game bulge. "We would do a lot better against the Maryland teams if we met them at the end of the season," observes Coach Maddux...
Miss Addison was distinctly the star of the evening. She sang her part well technically; but more than that she sang with perfect feeling for the sincere, restrained emotion characteristic of the Handel-Milton combination. Instead of the colorless clarity used for Handel by British sopranos like Isobel Baillie she brought a superb temperate richness to her part...
Gorman, who took the Eastern Intercollegiate 440-yard swim in 1947, has won his letter for the past two years and was one of the leading point makers on Hal Ulen's squad this winter. A prop school star and captain at the Shaker Heights High School, Gorman, who swam 220's this year until the E.LL meet last week, left College in the middle of the 1946 season to serve in the Navy. Last week he took third in the Eastern 440 championships...
...Quincy A.A.U. affair, Don Louria, Varsity 165-pounder, took the 175-pound class, while Dave Smith, Freshman star, took the 128-pound class. Varsity wrestler Dan Ray lost a referee's decision in the finals of the 145-pound class, and Howie Schless, Freshman coach, lost in the semis of the 121-pound division. John Chafee 1L lost in the finals of the 155-pound class...