Word: witherspoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Johnny Witherspoon's Yardling lacrosse team went down to a 8 to 2 defeat yesterday afternoon at the hands of the strong New Hampshire University ten. The match was played on the field behind the Business School. Although the Crimson outfit lost, the stickwork was the best of the year...
...Andover the Yardlings proved no match for the Royal Blue, who marched away with the honors 10 to 3. Those of Coach Johnnie Witherspoon's men who saw action were Fenn, Staber, Simmons, Murphy, Turner, Rogers, Alexis, Power, Heiden, Conlin, Wilson, Flint, Rothschild, Marshall, and Sachs...
...Yardlings, with Johnnie Witherspoon, former Harvard and All-American star as coach, have been working outdoors since vacation and are slowly getting organized. The Freshman defense held quite consistently during the match, but the attack was somewhat wavering and ill-tinied. Witherspoon's men face one of the hardest schedules in recent years and are bonding every effort to whip into shape as soon as possible...
Only for the first few minutes does his shy, worried presence on the screen, in the midst of a cast of seasoned professionals like Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong and Cora Witherspoon, threaten to be embarrassing. As the story proceeds, examining Corrigan's weary scrimpings to pay for flying lessons and then for his own plane; his painfully ineffectual efforts to become a transport pilot; finally, the well-planned exploit which brought him fame, his failings as an actor become the virtues of realism. Thus, The Flying Irishman is raised from the level of a routine Hollywood quickie to that...
...preliminary meeting held yesterday in the Carey Cage 15 Freshmen signed up for the Yardling lacrosse squad. With the hardest season in its history ahead, the stickmen, under the coaching of Johnnie Witherspoon, a former All-American star, will practice daily the rest of this month in preparation for the first game immediately after Spring Vacation...