Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, Charlie Hudder led a Crimson aquatic squad to its most recent undefeated season. This winter, Captain Jerry Gorman may pull off the same stunt. Backed by all of last year's team except Larry Miner and Hank Arthur in the 440 and Milt Busby in the 100-yd. freestyle, his squad may hit clear water all season...
...granted, however. Crucial contests loom with Yale, Army, Dartmouth, and Princeton, and he is working as hard and fast as possible to pull the squad into top shape. The familiar names of Chuck Hoelzer, Tommy Woods, Larry Ward, and Joe Fox highlight the possible lineup for the 300-yd. medley relay. But there is more depth in the relays this season than could be mustered last year, and Norm Watkins, Paul Killoran, and Jim Mac-Vicar are also possibilities in the freestyle division of the relays...
...block for Charlie, because he sets up the blocks." Choo Choo had an uncanny photographic eye that enabled him to get a quick picture of a broken field defense. He accounted for Carolina's third and game-winning touchdown by taking a punt on his own 16-yd. line and squirming 84 yards down the sidelines. Final score: North Carolina 21, Georgia...
Perfect Creases. In the other bracket, breezing through his first five rounds, Frank Stranahan ran into Ray Billows in the quarterfinal. A big partisan crowd trailed the two golfers around the 6,617-yd. course. One of Bachelor Stranahan's pretty fans had no trouble predicting the winner. Said she, loud enough for the players to hear: "Frankie's pants have perfect creases. That other guy looks like a bum." Replied Billows affably: "Lady, I've got a nicely pressed suit in my locker -and I'll wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan...
...Drake and Penn Relays, the U.S. got a more encouraging Olympic preview. At Des Moines, nimble Harrison Dillard, a 24-year-old Negro, won his 55th straight race in the 120-yd. high hurdles (equaling his own Drake Relays record in 14.1). At Philadelphia, Michigan's mighty Chuck Fonville, a 20-year-old Negro, heaved the 16-lb. shot 56 feet (short of his own world's record but a new Penn Relays record...