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...from being just a playground for weekend leg-stretchers. House sports are filled with serious competitors. Although intramurals were conceived as good clean fun-the race for the yearly Straus Cup, named after Percy S. Straus '97 and awarded to the House with the most combined wins, breeds fierce battles and keen rivalries...
...ready to accept women's boxing. "It was finally decided that they could take part in the boxing." Wilson recalls. "When the bell sounded, the woman would lie down on the floor. It was a protest against the all-male sport." Wilson says. Eventually Wilson removed boxing from Straus Cup competition, citing concern for the health of the often poorly conditioned pugilists...
That's the way it used to be Yesterday, the Lowell Bellboys, perennial laughing stocks of the Straus Cup gridiron circuit, stuck it to Leverett House and the world, winning their first game in seven years...
Since 1975, when Lowell House captured the Straus cup for intramural athletics, its football team has been winless. Only on the last play of last season's last game against Dunster-Mather did the Bellboys score their first point in three years. But now, seven years since the team's last victory, Lowell gridders say they are ready...
MOZART by Wolfgang Hildesheimer, translated by Marion Faber Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 408 pages...