Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pucksters should encounter stiff competition in attempting to stretch its winning streak, since the Cambridge outfits lists Exeter, whom the Freshmen barely topped 6-5 last Wednesday, among its victims. Hodder will probably start his winning line combination of Captain Prentle Willets, Burton Cox, and Stacey Hulse, with Butt and Gray on defense. George Hanford will be in the nets...
...Harvard-Yale relay was easily the high spot of the evening, the crowd reaching its highest emotional pitch (excluding the one-minute silence for founder George V. Brown) when Lightbody bore down upon and passed Gardner Millet in the last stretch of the dramatic race...
...facilities that are not already allotted to Freshmen. It would be easy to have softball and tag football games at Soldiers Field; squash courts and basketball courts would not be much harder to find. In these sports, conducted with all the rivalry and informality of House games, Freshmen could stretch their legs far more pleasantly than wandering aimlessly around a tennis court or a squash court three times a week...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week 18,000 fight fans witnessed one of the most exciting stretch finishes they could remember. Onetime World Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock had entered the ring an 8-to-5 underdog in a ten-round bout with Welshman Tommy Farr, British heavyweight champion. For eight rounds Jim Braddock did nothing to belie the betting public's estimation of him. Then suddenly, in the ninth round, the 32-year-old "Cinderella Man," who came off Relief three years ago to win the world championship from Max Baer and then lost...
...greatest golfer ever developed in the U. S. Making his bigtime debut in the winter circuit last year, 24-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead captured the favor of golf galleries by his tremendous power and precise timing, his natural swing, his titanic stretch finishes. He began to draw galleries reminiscent of the Hagen, Jones and Sarazen eras. By the time the No. i U. S. tournament of the year, the National Open, came around in June, Sam Snead was favored to win-an unheard of predicament for a first-year man. And more unheard of was the fact that...