Word: wesleyans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wesleyan's wrestling team were as sharp as its football team, Dan Ray and his seven Crimson cronies have just cause for alarm in this afternoon's home opener. However, the men from Middletown are even worse off than they were last year when they were smothered under a 32-0 score by the grapplers. The festivities get started at 3 p.m. in the Blockhouse wrestling room, with the freshmen engaging their Wesleyan counterparts simultaneously...
Because the relative strength of the two teams has gone in opposite directions since the last time they met (Wesleyan has lost its ace and Captain Frank Bowles; Harvard has gained power in the lightweight brackets while retaining its experienced heavyweights), the match is not expected to be any more searching a test of the Crimson's mat prowess than Saturday's party...
...lineup is fairly well set now. By beating Conrad Brevick in the 121-pound class, Joe Kozol will represent the Crimson in the only division that was still uncertain. Although Dave Coombs is Jordan's leading lightweight; he weighs 129 and won't be down to 121 before the Wesleyan match next Wednesday. The Crimson figures to take 121-pound honors against Tech without Coombs...
...rest of the schedule lists matches with MIT and Williams before Christmas, and, after the vacation, with Wesleyan, Penn, Army, Princeton, and Yale. The last three will be the toughest, since the Tigers are strong this year, and traditionally loaded Yale and Army are the only teams to beat the Crimson since the war. After the Ell contest come the all-important intercollegiate championships...
...headaches shouldn't start until the second term, for he has an experienced corps returning from last year's team, which lost only to Army, Princeton and Yale. Before Christmas vacation, the Crimson has only two meets--the opener with MIT a week from tomorrow and an engagement with Wesleyan. After the recess, the matmen meet Columbia. These three teams were Harvard's first three victims last winter...