Word: brokenness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Basketball Captain Ed Smith has a broken right leg and John Stevenson, Smith's substitute, has a probable fractured foot, X-rays taken yesterday revealed. Smith will definitely be unable to play for at least a month; Stevenson may be able to play in the Crimson's western trip which opens December...
Stevenson played the rest of the game, and ended it without any sign of a limp. Yesterday morning his foot hurt, and he had X-rays taken, which indicated either a broken bone in the arch of his right foot or a bad bruise...
Doctors have ordered Stevenson to take daily whirlpool leg baths in the hope that this will clear up the bruise. If the foot is broken, it will not respond to such treatment, and Stevenson will probably be unable to play for the rest of the season...
Captain Henry Foster is the latest of three brothers to play number one and captain the Crimson team. Sidelined by a broken leg for most of last season, Foster is nevertheless a capable and experienced player who stands near the top of intercollegiate squash ranks. Barnaby describes him as "a master strategist-a very accomplished player capable of taking on any opponent with at least an even chance of winning...
...proof . . . What then are the facilities offered for escape? . . . The flimsy wooden staircases can certainly not be relied on for egress, and the single rope in each suite of rooms is of such character that more than one person would find great difficulty in reaching the ground without a broken neck...