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This year the Council is continuing its policy of letting all of its 50 odd active members debate as much as they want, rather than concentrating on an impressive won-lost record...
There are limitations to all-out adoption of this debate style for the Harvard Council, though, Many opponents refuse to debate any but the standard question so that they are able to determine their regional standing merely by a glance at comparative won-lost records. Further, it is difficult to find over eighty opponents and topics(the Debate Council's present yearly schedule) that would draw an audience...
Barclay came to Cambridge as a 30-year old head basketball coach in 1916 and enjoyed a fairly successful season in his first year here. Saul Mariaschin paced the Crimson to a 19-6 won-lost record that year, but in the next two seasons Barclay was unable to hit on a winning combination...
...characteristic of Satchel Paige, hero and narrator of this tale, that he does not remember when or where the episode took place. He is hazy about his age, his won-lost record, and the number of no-hitters he has pitched. Last week, when the Cleveland Indians signed him up, Paige became the first Negro pitcher in the American League...
Brendan Reilly, one of only three Varsity pitchers after Bill Connolly was declared ineligible, ranked fourth in the League in earned runs with an average of 2.25 per game. Jack Wallace was twelfth with 3.89 but had the better won-lost record of the two with 4 and 2. Reilly had 2 wins as against 3 losses...