Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, Princeton has a forward line which has played together for three years in Bob Hordley, Horatio Turner and Ralph Wyer. The first two of these currently are on the injured list but are expected to return in time for the start of the league campaign next month. Two veterans are available for the defense posts, Dick Purnell, captain, and Ben Fuller, while John Coleman and Lowrey Kammer are veteran goalies. Other men being counted on are Al Fuller, Senior wing; Al Lane, brother of Princeton's former football captain, and Dick Faxon, Sophomore center...
Captain Al Vande Weghe, intercollegiate back-stroke champion, is back, but it is likely that he will be shifted to the free-style events, being replaced in the back by Mark Follanzbee, a Sophomore from Mercersburg, and Scott Scammell, a veteran...
...pound group lacks a single outstanding man, but there the competition for the first team is probably the keenest of all. In fact, it may not be settled definitely all year. Veteran Pete Illman has a slight edge over Bill Tyng and Harry Tine, a Junior and Sophomore respectively, but he will have to be on his toes to keep it. The close scrap for top honors here will probably bring about lots of improvement in the division all year long. Competition of this sort, as is provided by many men in other classes who are not quite good enough...
Beginning his sixteenth season as coach of the court squad, Lon Jourdet, the only alumni coach in the league, will have a completely veteran team available if he wishes to use it. The Quakers will miss Payson Brickley, 1939 captain; Tony Mischo, runner-up for the league's individual scoring crown, and Bill Dignan and Chuck Diven, but they still have Ross Hahn and Bruce Pearce as forwards; Harian Gustafson, football captain, at center, and Captain Gerry Seeders and Bernie Schrieber at the guards. In fact that is the way Pennsylvania will line up, at least for its early games...
Bill Merriam, Pennsylvania's veteran coach, figures that this team will be stronger in the back stroke and distance swims, a little better in the breast stroke and slightly weaker in the sprints and dive...