Word: swimmers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family & Early Years: The son of a Navy commander, "Mick" Carney was born in Vallejo, Calif. A classmate of Radford at the Naval Academy, Carney was a boxer and swimmer and a superior student. During World War I, as a destroyer officer, he was cited for his part in the capture of a German submarine off the French coast...
Squat Russell Tongay could hardly wait to make a swimmer out of his first-born son. As a high-school boy in St. Louis, barrel-chested Russ was a sprint swimmer himself, and earned letters in almost every other sport. But fame & fortune eluded him. He became a coach at municipal pools and summer camps, was anonymously enduring World War II as a Coast Guard pharmacist's mate at Miami when Russell Jr. was born...
...loved animals and raised hamsters with tender care. He was a good swimmer, and he played on the high-school junior varsity football team. He liked children and was in constant demand as a baby sitter. His father was a little disappointed after his son finished high school last summer because Fred insisted on enlisting in the Marines instead of going to college. But 18-year-old Fred was a sight to warm any father's heart when he came home on a ten-day leave from Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was tanned, soldierly, and as polite and thoughtful...
Sitting in the sidelines during the M.I.T. contest will be five players who performed outstandingly on the island. The five include football captain Johnny Nichols, swimmer John McNamara, Maury Noble, Bo Backstrum, and Jim Callahan, who was acting captain during the Bermuda trip. Nichols, McNamara, and Callahan did the team's entire scoring during both Bermuda games...
...Crimson will be supported by only three experienced players, Jack Macrae, Arnie Horween, and captain Jim Callahan. The squad contains four varsity athletes from other sports, including football players Johnny Nichols, Howie Finney, and Horween, and swimmer John MacNamara...