Word: pete
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are isolated feats. The real craze at the moment is hiking against the clock. The fad started a month ago when Royal Marine Pete ("Hopalong") Dagnan, 24, set out to challenge the record of 104 miles paced off in 40½ hr. by a U.S. marine. Hopalong, in service dress and carrying a submachine gun, marched the no miles from Dorset to London, eating buns and sipping rum for fuel, staggered across the Charing Cross finish line in mid-London 36 hr. 27 min. later, gasped: "Tell that to the marines!" The marines were serenely proud of his deed...
...other varsity players are Dave Grayer (6ft.), Marc Kolden (6ft., 4 in.), Greg Loser (5 ft., 10 in.), and Pete Hart...
During the last two seasons the goal has consistently been Weiland's greatest headache. This year, however, he finds himself with three men any of whom will be a considerable improvement: Pete Tague, Willy Henderson, and last years Yardling captain Bob Bland...
Guards Jerry Weilder and George Waterman are graduating, but captain-elect Terry Lenzner and Bill Swinford can handle the starting berths with ease, with Roger Wilson, Dick Baker and Tom Gaston backing them up. With only Pete Eliades graduating, the centers look solid with Jon Christensen, Steve Cohen and Tony Watters...
...service for the social amenities. Best of all, he had a yen to play rugby. After all, he had been good at games back in the U.S., and he stood a lean, big-boned 6 ft. 1½ in., 205 Ibs. The rugby prospect: Rhodes Scholar and Infantry Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, No. 10 man in his class at West Point (1959), first captain of cadets, baritone in the cadet choir, captain of the undefeated football team, and All-America halfback...