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Sophomore Bennett of Cornell is another high scorer despite the fact that injuries shelved him for the final game of the year. Scofield, a fine team player and a good shot, sparked the efforts of the best Tiger five in recent years. Batchelder and MacLeod started slowly this season, and they were both hard pressed for their high rating by Columbia's Tom Macioce, a top-notch performer for the Lions throughout the entire schedule. THE ALL-LEAGUE TEAMS FIRST TEAM Pos. Name College Pts. F. Gustave Broberg Dartmouth 14 F. James Bennett Cornell 10 C. Giles Scofield Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E.I.L. COACHES PICK ALL-STAR QUINTETS | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...history of paleolithic education, delivered by a fictitious Professor J. Abner Peddiwell while he drinks tequila daisies at a Tijuana bar. Professor Peddiwell reports that the three fundamentals taught to youngsters in this curriculum were: 1) fish - grabbing -with -the -bare -hands, 2) horse-clubbing, 3) saber-tooth-tiger-scaring-with-fire (see cut). When fish became too agile to catch with the bare hands and horses and tigers disappeared, schools nevertheless went on teaching the old fundamentals for their cultural value. Eventually progressives, insisting that "to learn tiger-scaring, it is quite helpful to have a real tiger," revolted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Saber-Tooth Curriculum | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Tiger captain Dick Hough, however, who provided the feature performance of the evening when he annexed the 200-yard breastroke in 2:22.2, a new world's record. Many of the Yale times were sparkling--Johnny Good's 2:15.2 in the furlong and 53.5 century should give the Crimson mermen something to shoot at. Eric Perryman and Russ Duncan provided one of the big upsets of the evening when they both finished ahead of Hank Van Oss in a 23.6 50, another mark which Hal Ulen's boys have not touched yet this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Defeats Tiger To Grab First Place In Swimming League | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

...spectators during every race, all of which does not promote good will toward the padding sport. Also, life was tough for the backstrokers. As they surged along on their respective backs they were forced to see not a decent ceiling, but a be-girdered roof cluttered with Tiger fans clinging to the rafters. One eager Bengal rooter even dropped his raincoat into the tank, but not during a race--it was only during the dive...

Author: By A STAFF Correspondent, | Title: "Oh, Brokaw, Where Is Thy Sting" Is Theme of Bedraggled Rooters for Crimson Paddlemen at Princeton Splash Fest | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...upshot of it all was that the Crimson rooters left Brokaw gloomily, hoping some kind Tiger alumnus would contribute a new pool. Princeton men answered that the funds, if forthcoming, will go to a new library first...

Author: By A STAFF Correspondent, | Title: "Oh, Brokaw, Where Is Thy Sting" Is Theme of Bedraggled Rooters for Crimson Paddlemen at Princeton Splash Fest | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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