Word: sports
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation is somewhat different in lacrosse. Ince has been playing that sport for several years since it is very popular of Long Island. He's the feeder for the Crimson. He usually circulates behind the net and passes out to teammates in a position to shoot. For this reason, Ince led the league in assists this year with 13. Webster and Johnsen get most of their points on goals, rather than assists. Ince has some good help, of course. He can pass to, among others, Phil Zuckerman and Bruce Regan, who ranked sixth and eighth in Ivy scoring. But even...
...bulky 12-page annual report on this year's results, respectfully submitted by Floyd Wilson, director of such affairs, a table showed that freshman participation reached an 11-year low. For almost every sport, the number of participants had declined so that the total for the three seasons was 1333. This number, however, is greater than the total number of participants because if a persons competes in three sports, for example, he has been included three times in the figure of 1333. From 1958 to 1962, the rates hovered consistently around 1900. Then, for a four-year period, the numbers...
...problem is that there are just not that many people who are eager enough to go out to play some semi-organized sport. Mike Sherman, athletic secretary of champion Greenough, suggested that proctors ought to show more concern with the program and encourage people to participate, as well as helping out the athletic secretaries. A big factor, Sherman said, was the persistence of the athletic secretary. In Sherman's case, this persistence borders on fanaticism, and a colleague of his called him "the Vince Lombardi of freshman intramurals." Way to go, Mike...
...origin of this spirit may be the lack of financial backing for the lacrosse team. This may sound silly, but when the team can not even afford to have a small banquet at the season's end, it's hard to overcome the feeling that the sport is strictly minor league. More crucial is the fact that funds are necessary to hire another coach or two to help Munro. It is simply impossible for one coach to handle a team of almost 30 players during practice. Two volunteers with considerable ability came down when they could to help, but there...
...Chicago White Sox were heavy favorites over the National League's Cincinnati Reds, and Cicotte, with a 29-7 season's record, was a good bet to win at least two games. But gamblers offered Eddie and seven of his teammates several thousand dollars to throw the sport's most vaunted prize. "Black Sox," screamed the fans. "I did it for the wife and kiddies," Eddie pleaded, but baseball's tough new commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banned all eight players from baseball for life...