Word: tuneup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Injuries are still haunting the team as it goes into its tuneup week for a vastly underrated Rutgers squad. Jim Kenary and Howie Houston will not be ready. John Gorzcynski, who seems to have come up with a Dartmouth injury during the weekend, is a highly questionable starter. Chester Pierce and Nick Rodis, however, are virtually certain to play, though possibly not in starting roles...
Coach Warren Berg substituted freely after leading at the half 35 to 9. Every man on the Freshman squad played for at least two minutes in what was the final Yale tuneup battle. John Rockwell, ace pivot man, was high man again in the scoring department as he racked up 19 points. The starting lineup: Freshmen; rf, Lionette; if, Goldsmith; c, Rockwell; rg, Covey; lg, Byrnteson...
...throw; Dave Reed, whose 21 foot, 1/4 inch leap earned him second place in the broadjump; and Pete Garland, who took second in the 16-pound shot and tied for third in the high-jump. Since the meet was invitational, no score were kept. It was the last competitive tuneup for the Varsity prior to next Saturday's Yale meet...
...short of capacity (around 58,000) but just a scattered few thousands around those end zone oases would have made a lot of difference in the atmosphere. Even the press box looked deserted for this opener, the earliest in Harlow's Harvard history except for a tuneup with a pre-flight eleven...
...tuneup for the Yale match, the Freshman tennis team lost 5 to 4 to a very good Exeter squad yesterday. Yardling John Zinsser pulled a great upset in downing Oliver Moses, interscholastic champion who had never before been beaten...