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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Athletics have advanced to a far more important position from the days of M. D' Alfonce in 1852, a mustachioed Gaul who led marching and deep breathing en-masse until 1862. One of the last in the South to openly adopt the system, Virginia began the subsidization of athletic talent two years...
...seem agreed that it takes a certain amount of talent to get on the U. S. Olympic team, for the competition is the stiffest this country can produce since all get a chance to enter. In the past, Olympic representatives have come mainly from the athletic clubs and the post-college ranks, with only a few from colleges making the grade. But 1948 may be different; at least athletes along the Charles hope to make it so. Olympic fever, a malady unknown for many year, has reappeared in the sports world...
...pressure for merger is not on now--and won't be until enrollment and talent and money start to shrink to their normal levels. The real struggle for existence--or perhaps a quiet amalgamation--will come then...
Rated underdogs for the first, and possibly only time this year, Dick Harlow's 34-man football squad entrains for Virginia, the land of plantations and imported gridiron talent, tonight at 11 o'clock from South Station...
...Lamar keeps pretty mum about his choices for most of the squad spots and in Freshman football anything can happen in the course of a season. But a look at the '51 roster and the spirited practices held so far indicate that Coach Lamar will have no dearth of talent in this group of gridders playing together for the first time...