Word: kilpatrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Base, N.C., carrying a load of paratroopers for a practice jump. A flock of starlings, startled from the trees, swept across its nose. They were drawn in by the thrashing propellers. The carburetor air intakes of both engines suddenly became choked with dead birds, the engines faltered. Pilot Robert Kilpatrick shouted to a crewman to push the jump bell...
...pines snagged the plane's wings. The C82 lurched, crashed, burst into flames. Pilot Kilpatrick and two crewmen died in their seats. A pilot instructor and a lieutenant observer got out. Cool-headed Sergeant Hodgkiss also tumbled out, unhurt. Said he of his thoughts in the few seconds before the crash, "I just sat there and thought about my wife, Pearl Lucille. We've only been married nine months...
Behind the plate, Berg has been using Gordon Kilpatrick and lately, Sherrill Houston. When spring football practice ends, Bill Rosenau, former Andover receiver, will be available. Rosenau has been practicing but cannot play. Pitcher George Emmons, also out for football, is able to play, but cannot attend practice sessions. Catching has been a sore sport for Berg, and he insists his staff "must improve." The outfield has proved to be another Crimson weakness. Reilly, another Roxbury graduate and brother of Brendon Reilly who pitched for the Varsity last spring, John Simons, and Ernie Wohler had been operating in the outer...
Bill Weber started on the mound for the Freshmen, giving way to Jim Gabler in the fourth, while Roy Meears came on in the later stages. John Kilpatrick handled the catching chores. Milton pitcher Moulton went the route for the home team, fanning eight Crimson batters and yielding six earned runs...
Nomination meetings were temporally confused when bad enunciation substituted a Kilpatrick for a Fitzpatrick, and a Bartlett for a Bartle...