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Word: player (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brickley, 58, Harvard All-America (1912-13) and his 30-year-old son, Charles Brickley Jr., during an early-morning brawl in a Manhattan restaurant. According to testimony, the fight started when Brickley overheard someone say: "Is that old bald-headed so-and-so Charlie Brickley, the football player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Tough All Over | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...diversion engaged in without animosity or dirty playing, regardless of talent. Economically favoring the athlete is prostituting that purpose. What about the boy who is refused admittance because of athlete preference? I knew a high school boy who got polio right after he was picked as the best baseball player in the diocese of Brooklyn. At least 6 feet tall, his body was conspicuously atrophied. To pick an athlete in preference to this boy, or one like him, would be to continue a time-honored American custom, viz., discriminating unfairly against a human being because he could not overcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More On Athletics | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...years ago a man walked into Hemenway armed only with a squash racquet. His knowledge of squash technique amounted to roughly the idea that a racquet, a little black ball, and four walls could make a varsity squash player. Of course a few basic things were missing in his concept. It wasn't until after he had spoken to Coach Barnaby that he became fired with a desire to play the game, and a willingness to go through long hours of practice. Tomorrow this man will be in the starting lineup when the team journeys to Hanover to play Dartmouth...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

Hugh Nawn, one of the juniors on the starting combination is small for a squash player, not having the long arms which make difficult returns easier. Coach Barnaby, however, has described his game as "quick, clever and artful," and believes that his speed makes up for his size. Nawn will play in the number two position...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

...with four members of last years sophomore team making up the bulk off the opening force, and five starters including the number ten ranking player in Massachusetts, Hugh Boster, sidelined, the squash team will open intercollege season against Dartmouth tomorrow...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

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