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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line is not particularly huge, with the top lineman weighing but 225, and the second but 215. The Big Red instead has a fast line and especially a fast offensive line to go with their greyhound backs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Big Red Best We'll Face'---Valpey | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

...pass, and then cut under our bow. We all politely stared at its four man crew. They stared right back, and one of them scrambled into his cabin. He promptly reappeared holding an enormous red swallow-tail flat, which he bont onto a halliard and ran up to the top of his mast. After a few minutes he pulled it down again and sailed off. We were very concerned about the whole incident, and asked the first Dutch harbormaster we ran into what was coming off. "Oh," said the harbormaster, "he just wanted to know if you had any smallpox...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...Eliot House Care Committee an organization set up last year to send CARE packages and other necessities to European students--this week opens a drive to top its 1948-49 total of $870 in contributions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Care Committee Launches 1949-50 Campaign | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

Sisyphus was the fellow who spent all his time in Hades pushing a huge rock up a hill only to have it rill down gain as soon as he reached the top...

Author: By John. R. W. smail, | Title: Lamar Labors On '53 Squad | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

Following their regular schedule, the seven house teams will make the long trek down to New Haven on November 18th to face their traditional rival colleges at Yale; the respective top league teams will at the same time fight their annual battle for the two-college championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Gridders Begin Drills | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

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