Word: sports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest players against each other in head-to-head competition, as was the case for three fabulous seasons between 1929 and 1931. In those last glorious days of football at the two colleges Crimson quarterback Barry Wood and Eli halfback Albie Booth staged battles that were watched by every sport fan in the land. Still, when the ancient opponents take the field each year, a certain element exists which the trumped-up "big-time" clashes cannot equal--a hint of greatness, and a sprit of competition that has existed since 1875, when Harvard beat Yale, four goals and four touchdowns...
...some 40 British-made cars, all but half a dozen are technically capable of speeds over 75 m.p.h. But while British owners bandy maximum speeds, r.p.m.s and acceleration rates as expertly as if auto racing were the nation's favorite blood sport, they seldom, if ever, get to test these heady technicalities. On an antique road network, pocked by decades of neglect and choked by 8,500,000 cars and trucks passing relentlessly through one narrow village after another, most drivers consider themselves Barney Oldfields if they can occasionally push speedometers over 30 m.p.h., and they get their thrills...
...When he resumed his piano career in 1946, at 34, after a year of small-town orchestra conducting, he found that his technique was rusty but his musical perception far sharper than it had been. "Before," he says, "the piano was a sport. After the war, it was a medium to give something to people...
...does one of the season's most successful college football coaches refuse to give his team an oldfashioned, rip-roaring pep talk before the game? See SPORT, The Boys from Syracuse...
Burning to teach, Jim Babinetz, 19, of Trafalgar, Ont., enrolled last month at suburban Toronto's Long Branch Teachers College. Last week Jim was dropped from school. The reason: "Gross obesity." His record as a star four-sport athlete in high school was no defense. Though 6 ft. tall, he weighed 278 Ibs., had a 44-in. waist, 51 -in. hips when he entered college. Explained an official: "He wouldn't make a good teacher. Obesity in teachers has a bad effect on children. There must be a limit to the size of teachers...