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After coach Joe Restic unfurled Coppinger's jersey before the assembled gridders--the traditional designation of the team's new leader--the Billerica native pledged to revenge Saturday's 14-0 drubbing by Yale and bring the Ivy League championship back to Cambridge for the first time since...
...towns. At its greatest length, in 1651, the town was in Higginson's words, "long and thin, as becomes an overgrown youth, measuring 18 miles in length and only a mile in width. It is shaped like a pair of compasses, one leg extending through Arlington, Lexington, Bedford and Billerica," while the other, shorter leg bisected Brighton and Newton. The present Cambridge formed only the head of the compass...
...city's early years, like the College's were quiet and uneventful. Cambridge, rechristened in remembrance of England's foremost college on a river, spread out for miles to include Arlington, Lexington and Billerica. Since but one church was allowed for each community, these split off to form separate parishes as soon as there were enough residents to make commuting to services difficult. A corollary to this rule--state law required all churches to have a tavern within a few hundred feet, so independent towns had to be large enough to support their own grog shop...
...strike began after the B&M hired a non-union contractor to repair a boiler at the railroad's offices in North Billerica, Gloria Stone, a B&M spokesman, said yesterday...
William Dyer Billerica, Mass...