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Rees, incidentally, was a teammate of Crimson field events coach Ed Stowell at Springfield College. Their coach, in turn, was present Crimson varsity mentor Bill McCurdy. It is not widely known that McCurdy is that...
Pure Product. In almost every way, Cincinnati's Robertson is a pure product of the sport of basketball as it has developed in, the U.S. The game was invented in 1891 in Springfield, Mass, by a gym instructor named Jim Naismith, who wanted to give his bored classes a switch from the daily grind of calisthenics. Today basketball is played with eager enthusiasm and improving skill by some 50 nations from Chile to China, but it has remained a distinctly American game. Its virtues are obvious : any number can play, indoors or out, in all seasons. It requires nothing...
...Springfield College came from behind to hand the Crimson wrestling squad its fifth defeat in seven matches at the IAB, but the fencing team meanwhile over-whelmed the University of Connecticut, 16-5, for its fourth win in six starts...
After losing the first three events, the Springfield wrestlers came to life and won the remaining five matches for a 17-9 victory. Captain Nick Estabrook, wrestling in the 137-lb. class, was the last to add to the Harvard scoring column, following victories by teammates Ed Greitzer(123-lb.) and George Doub...
...wrestling team is not doing as well as the hockey team this winter, and may well run into considerable trouble against Springfield. The Crimson's overall record so far is only 2 and 4, and the team has lost the lone Ivy match it wrestled, to Columbia last week...