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Powers was the standout, but there were plenty of other Harvard stars in the near whitewash triumph. Ted McNitt and Lonnie Stowell combined with Captain Powers to shove highly touted Sherb Carter out in the cold with a pair of fourths in the sprints. McNitt, a House swimmer last year, has improved by leaps and bounds and did very close to 24.2 Wednesday. Lonnie Stowell, with a shaky turn and start, was close on McNitt's heels in the 50 and got another third...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: MERMEN IMPRESSIVE AS THEY DUNK BROWN SWIMMERS, 62-13 | 1/17/1941 | See Source »

...boys, pledged to do or die for 34 the ghost of old Red Grange, ganged up on Harmon just as they did a year ago. Though he never got loose for a long run, he scored one touchdown, kicked a field goal and helped his teammates to whitewash Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Greater Than Grange | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...deafness, to fight any proxy he might name. Academician Maurras declined the challenge, but not because of old age. "So far as my age is concerned," said he, "M. Prouvost can rest assured that it has left me all my strength. But I shall not employ it to whitewash him." Thereupon punctilious M. Prouvost drew up a proces -verbal, which declared formally that, inasmuch as M. Maurras had not shown up, the duel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Life | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Pennsylvania's Caputo was in fine form as he administered a neat coat of whitewash to the hapless Lions and tied the one-hit pitching performances record established earlier this spring by Tom Healey. Healey's masterpiece was also chalked up against those same Lions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leaders Inactive on E.I.L. Baseball Front; Cornell Secure in First Place | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

...Bruins have a couple of good twirlers in Junior Ray McCulloch and Sophomore Walt Juszczyk, and the early season games for the Providence lads have been featured by a 6 to 0 whitewash handed out to Rutgers. The two standout Bear pitchers divided mound duties in that game and allowed but one safe blow--and that was of the scratchy variety--in the nine innings they tolled...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Yale, Princeton Appear Strong As EIL Loop Gets Under Way | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

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