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Wilson a junior guard, has averaged 12 points a game, shooting mainly from around the key. Wisdom, a 6-foot 8-inch senior center, boasts a 15-point-plus average, compiled predominantly on tip-ins and close to the basket shots...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Varsity Quintet Faces Green In 8:30 p.m. Contest at IAB | 2/13/1954 | See Source »

Dunster was undefeated in B league play last semester, but will feel the loss of Bob Walser, who broke his ankle just before exams. Six foot four inch Harold Collard and five foot eight inch Don Spenser will have to take up the slack, as Kirkland, 5 and 2, will try to catch...

Author: By Stephen L.seftenberg, | Title: Dunster May Win Cup Again As Puritans Remain Second | 2/12/1954 | See Source »

Bill Dennis played a fine game, passing, rebounding, and leading his team in scoring with 24 points. But six feet 1 inch Tony Daukas of the Eagles more than matched that with 29 points, while Tom Cullinane netted 13 and Powell...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: B.C. Defeats Quintet, 73-52; '57 Five Gains Ninth Victory | 2/11/1954 | See Source »

When the price war ends, it is expected that retail prices will rise. The 12-inch RCA record, which normally sells for $5.72 and has sold for $3.54 and $3.99 during the price war, will probably go up either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Price War Brings Boom in Record Sales | 2/9/1954 | See Source »

Ever since the Greeks, athletes have been trying to see how far and high they can jump. Inch by inch, specialists raised the record mark until, last June, a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Texan named Walt Davis rolled himself across a bar 6 ft. 11½ in. high. Last week the official high-jumping world rocked to word that a relatively little (5 ft. 9 in.) Texan at the University of Illinois, using a new technique, had cleared 7 ft. The trouble with the news, from the standpoint of the orthodox: 1) instead of using the conventional running take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How High Is a High Jump? | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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