Word: yales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson basketball team has perhaps the toughest assignment, for it must readjust its sights from bluebooks to backboards in time to meet Yale at New Haven. The Elis have not measured up to pre-season expectations so far, but must still be awarded the favorite's role by reason of home-court advantage, if no other...
Since rebounding has been a major Crimson weak point in previous games (and against opponents of a less stratospheric sort), it will probably take some extremely fine shooting to defeat the Elis. In addition to Glynn, Yale has two other potentially dangerous scorers: Dan McFadden (12 points per), and forward Larry Downs...
Sophomore Bob Stack led off the mile relay for Yale in 49.7, which McCurdy called "a really outstanding indoor time." From that point on, the race was no longer in doubt, and Yale finished well ahead of the Crimson in 3:22.5. The Yale two-mile team, running without Tommy Carroll, possibly the best half-miler in the nation, and Ed Slowik, another gifted middle-distance man, still won its race in an excellent...
...Yale the only formidable opponent on the varsity's schedule. Army, which faces the Crimson Feb. 21, is supposed to be even stronger and deeper than the Bulldogs, and Dartmouth, an easy foe last year, could give McCurdy's men a difficult time in the coming dual meet on Feb. 6, at Hanover. Freshman Tom Laris, who covered two miles in an unbelievable 9:08.9 to finish third in the K. of C. meet, gives a hint of the Big Green's growing strength...
...touchy Cuba, where Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith, a political appointee, had just resigned under rebel criticism (TIME, Jan. 19), the U.S. State Department last week prepared to rush one of its top careermen, Manhattan-born, Yale-educated Philip Bonsai...