Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wellesley Hills, Mass...
Golf was introduced to New England in 1892 by a young woman named Florence Boit. Until 1948 she remained anonymous and was referred to only as "the young lady from Pau." It seems that Florence arrived in Wellesley, Mass. for a summer sojourn at the home of Arthur Hunnewell with her golf clubs in tow, having brought them over from Pau, France, where she had been wintering. She was soon informed to her great chagrin that the game of golf had never been played in New England before, much less even heard...
...Wellesley's center notched the visitors' second and last score at 19:45 on a dandy twisting, under-handed shot, but Oppenlander answered it with her second tally of the game, and the first period ended with the Crimson enjoying a handsome 6-2 advantage...
While there were times in the first half when Wellesley gave Harvard some real problems, any semblance of competition disappeared in the second period. The fact that the visitors failed to score in the final 25 minutes, even though Crimson goalie Sukie Magraw did not have any saves, attests to the impotence of Wellesley's attack...
Freshman Sue St. Louis--back in intercollegiate action for Harvard after leading the women's soccer team in scoring last fall--paced the J.V.'s to their easy victory with a four-goal performance. Anna Thompson ran a close second to St. Louis, firing three goals--equal to the Wellesley team toal--in the cage to give the J.V.'s their second hat trick winner...