Word: team
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only four key men from last year's varsity swimming team aren't working out in the Indoor Athletic Building pool for the '49-50 season but their absence gas evoked Coach Hal Ulen's squad in three events...
There is some element of truth in the Traveler's story. It is true that William J. Bingham addressed the meeting. It is also true that Mr. Bingham stated that there were several members of the 1949 team who neglected the rules of training, and who were in short, unwilling to "pay the price" of playing varsity football...
This does not mean that the members of the team did not deeply resent Bingham's remarks. Those players we have talked to thought it was not very tactful of the Athletic Director to attack the training habits of certain members of the team. They felt it needlessly antagonized the graduating seniors on the team; that even though Bingham meant only a few offenders, it reflected on the whole team, and that if he really wanted to improve the training of the team he should have waited until next September to exhort the team to train vigorously...
Some felt that it ill behooved Bingham to criticize the members of a team which had spent over 220 hours of practice time, including the whole month of September, on Soldiers Field, and which made a considerable financial contribution to the H.A.A. through its efforts. After all, none were being paid, or even subsidized, and it was all purely voluntary work...
Benny Jacobson will give a banquet for the members of the football team at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Circle Lounge...