Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clinging tenanciously to the heels of Yale's Varsity for 13 nip and tuck events, Harvard's undefeated track squad went over the top in the final pair, the broad jump and Javelin, and scored a 70 1/2 to 64 1/2 upset in the forty-eighth contest between the traditional rivals...
Although the play was nip and tuck in the first half, the Crimson fifteen capitalized on its scoring opportunities and Bobbie Green and Captain "Cowboy Bill" Waters scored a try apiece. In the second half the L.I.U. scrum returned with a threatening ferociousness and aggressiveness, but Sid Cabot's ruggers stood pat and returned with a scoring drive that netted two more tries made by Dick Simpson and Tom Mountain after a sparkling 50 yard run. Wally DeWitt added four points to the afternoon's total with two conversions...
...Executive Committee: Henry P. Fletcher, Ferric C. Galpin, M. Preston Goodfellow, Herbert Hoover, Richard W. Lawrence, Chauncey Mc-Cormick, Dave Hennen Morris, Maurice Pate, Edgar Rickard, Lewis L. Strauss, W. Hallam Tuck, Allen Wardwell. - Lars Moen, an American chemist who was caught in Belgium by the Blitzkrieg, reported in his recent book Under the Iron Heel (Lippincott; $2.75) that scores of Belgians told him "perhaps the major" share of food sent from the U. S. to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans...
There are several important problems confronting Hal Ulen at the present time. He could use another good 100 man in the worst way--to fill out his relay quartet or to tuck on the end of the medley in close meets. Dave Stearns, Bob Sceery, Tom Shrewsbury, and Tom Godfrey are all in the running for this job, but it is still a wide-open fight. Captain Frannie Powers, Lonnie Stowell, and Art Bosworth are almost certain to swim three of the legs in a vital relay, and the above-mentioned four reserves, in addition to 50 man Ted McNitt...
...well-oiled Crimson field hockey machine crushed a hapless band of Elis in field hockey, 3 to 0, at Wheaton yesterday afternoon. The game was nip-and-tuck for two minutes, but then superior Harvard strategy began to tell. In the last period the Blue-bellies turned place blue with fright...