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...offensive role, Gunnoe must provide the kind of pin-point passing that All-American Grady Watts supplied in recent seasons and will be used primarily as a feeder and play-maker for the varsity strong, but inexperienced mid-fielders. The 5 ft. 10 in. stickman has looked good in Briggs cage work-outs and could be the key to another strong season for the Crimson...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Varsity Lacrosse Opens '63 Season With Annual Swing Through South | 3/26/1963 | See Source »

...final period LaMotte continued his brilliant performance by flipping passes to Bobby Grose and John Walker. Each stickman rifled a shot once past Leaf, who had returned to the Crimson nets late in the quarter...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Lacrosse Squad Overwhelmed by Yale Barrage, 13-7, As Hot Weather, Poor Offense Mar Crimson's Effort | 5/21/1962 | See Source »

Midfielder Pete Wood was the only other stickman to score more than once in the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickmen Mash Penn As Watts, Williams Star in 15-3 Win | 4/23/1962 | See Source »

Shortly thereafter Crump's cops arrested a quiet little Memphis gasoline-station operator named James Edward ("Piggy") Moore. He was charged with vagrancy (although he had $300 in his pockets) and loitering (in his own gas station). Moore admitted that he had made extra money as a nighttime stickman at a casino across the Mississippi in Arkansas. But he always lived within the law in Memphis. When he was fined $26 and told to leave town, he decided to fight. He talked to the FBI, hired a lawyer, got backing from press and pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: The Boss & the Gambler | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...afternoon in the autumn of 1928 Jaakko saw what looked to him like a wonderful distance prespect loping down past the Stadium, waving, of all things, a lacrosse stick. This, of course, was a mistake and it didn't take the Crimson track coach long to convince the erstwhile stickman that his destiny was track not lacrosse. Reed eventually captured the IC4A cross country title and in winning the IC4A outdoor two-mile established a new Harvard record of 9 minutes 22 seconds--a mark which still stands...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 3/29/1947 | See Source »

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