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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real rough hockey and a possible brawl is what you're looking for in the way of entertainment, by all means wend your way down to the Boston Arena tonight. The varsity hockey team and B.U., the two contenders whose most recent skirmish resulted last year in 58 minutes of penalties and four serious injuries, face off at 9 p.m. in the second half of the season's first hockey double bill...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Hockey Team Meets BU Six in Arena Tonight | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

...never recognize the demure little old pastime of roller skating the way they have it fixed up nowadays. If you haven't already thrilled to the daring intricacies of the Roller Derby through television (and this is well nigh impossible to avoid if you watch TV in the evening for any length of time), they are on view nightly at the Mechanics Building...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

This joke, which was originally made in the French Chamber of Deputies decades ago and which eventually found its way into the anecdote section of the "Readers Digest," is typical of those in the movie. Almost all of the laughs arrive by way of deep left field and are put across with the heavy hand of amateur gag men. This is unfortunate because four of the participants are capable of real humor. Besides the traditional Hepburn-Tracy team, the movie present Judy Holliday of "Born Yesterday" fame and Tom Ewell, who played Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts...

Author: By Brenton WELLING Jr., | Title: Adam's Rib | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Obviously the kind of football towards which Harvard is being pushed--and it has come a long way on the road already--will contradict its educational aims. In the atmosphere of semi-professional football with its glorification of the Varsity, coaches fighting for survival, and intense competition, the player gains nothing from his participation in sports, that is, he gains nothing of legitimate value. Football, we say, has special conditions, special privileges; but we are not sufficiently sensitive to its professional attitude in football which is corrupting all other sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics and GE | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson team was in command all the way, but it never played consistently good hockey for more than a few minutes at a time. This condition might easily be laid to lack of practice and understandable opening game unsteadiness, but another performance of this sort will not beat Boston University tomorrow nor any of the strong Pentagonal League contenders later in the season...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Skaters Defeat MIT in Opener, 10-5 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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