Word: tilts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...winter sports season went on almost at full tilt, although Athletic director Bill Bingham, following Coach Dick Harlow who went into the navy, had joined the Army as Major. Hockey was the big sport with John Chase's boys losing only three times. Twice they bowed to the over-strong Dartmouth sextet, tying them once. Once they lost to Yale, but twice they beat them soundly to take the series...
Pitcher Norm Cameron turned in a 6 to 0 softball shutout for the Leverett A. C. for a clean win over the Puritans. Winthrop's pitcher Ptarys was quickly chased by the Bunny swatters. The Funsters defaulted to Lowell in their softball tilt...
...contest with last year's second place team in the American league is the Crimson's only engagement with a major league club this spring. In previous years, there was always a home and home series with Yale, but this season there will be only one tilt with the Elis, to be played at New Haven...
...Guild contributed another three points with a decision in the 128 class, while Pete Fuller, a fairly consistent winner throughout the season, managed a draw with Yale Captain Bill Macamber, star of the Elis, in the 165-pound tilt. Two Varsity footballers met in the unlimited class as tackle Stan Durwood was held to the mat by football player Bob Pickett of Yale, as the latter added one more victory to his unbroken string this season...
...second stanza, Collinson again sent the disk home to sow up the game. The play was fast and furious throughout, and the tilt turned out to be one of the most thrilling of the current season...