Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leading all the way the Jayvee team defeated Rhode Island College of Education 39-26 last night in the Indoor Athletic Building. With a starting lineup of Dobbyn and Sullivan, forwards, MacLeod, center, and Wills and Stephenson, guards, the home team garnered a commanding lead of 28-9 at the half and then coasted home to victory. Dick Sullivan was high scorer with eight points...
...James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy is a small bronze statue awarded annually by the Amateur Athletic Union to the U. S. athlete who "by his performance, example and influence' as an amateur and as a man has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." There is no particular reason why these conditions should be fulfilled any better by a decathloner than by a foot-racer, polo player or yachtsman. Nonetheless, the sports experts whose poll decides the Sullivan award have come to regard it as a rare chance to make amends to decathloners...
Winner was another decathloner-Glenn Morris of Denver and New York. In the list of compliments with which the Sullivan Committee always accompanies its gifts, Decathloner Morris, who got 1.106 votes, was characterized as "modest, courageous, helpful, amiable and always willing to abide by decisions and rulings ... a fine type of sportsman. . . ." Decathloner Morris discovered his vocation in a way characteristic of decathloners. A famed footballer at Colorado State College of Agriculture, he had never seen the event until he visited the 1932 Olympic Games as a spectator. Decathloner Jim Bausch's victory, with a world record score, caused...
...statement by one Boston paper saying that he had confessed to this charge in the presence of Sullivan is false...
...according to reports, one of the four boys was a son of Councilman Michael Sullivan, and shortly three squad cars loaded with Cambridge Police arrived and took Coquillete to jail on $50 bail...