Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just because over ten Crimson sports are officially "out of season" the teams aren't sleeping. In fact, all but one winter or spring squad is currently involved in some form of preliminary practice. Here's the roundup, team by team...
Chief among the winter sports are hockey and basketball whose seasons are little more than a month away...
...more winter sports squads are working out, but only informally at present. A dozen wrestlers are at it in the Blockhouse, but official practice won't start in earnest until after the Yale game, when Coach Butch Jordan is freed of his football duties. Also, 25 fencers are working out. Official practice here doesn't start until the end of November, for the first match isn't until February...
...sixth winter sport--squash--is taking something of a back seat, because Coach Jack Barnaby has to devote most of his time to the tennis team's fall workouts at Soldiers Field. The tennis team has more time for practice in fall than in spring, and Barnaby says it doesn't take the squash men very long to get ready...
...Nine months of winter, and three months of inferno" is an old yet apt Spanish adage. Those few Americans who braved climatic considerations, and waded through the red tape to obtain a visa to a dictatorship, found themselves in the hottest (121 degrees and higher was not unusual), dryest, poorest, and most isolated of Europe's states...