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...mere 1,395. It was stumbling along on a $1,450,000 budget-far below what it needed. The roof of historic old Cutler Hall leaked, and the building had been condemned. Other buildings needed cleaning, painting, and repairing. Patches of bare ground showed through the campus turf like moth holes in a bearskin rug. Not surprisingly, faculty and student morale was in the dumps...
Harvard seemed more successful on defense than on offense once the scrimmage got going. Yesterday marked the first time the sophomores had done any contact work on the Stadium turf, which is very different from the practice field, and the first time the players had scrimmaged against people other than themselves. When they found they could rise up and stop the B.U. backs, the Crimson defenders turned in an encouraging performance against the Terrier ground attack, with Heidtmann, Rosenau, and O'Neil standing...
...Seabright Lawn Tennis and Cricket* Club, the oldest tennis club in the U.S. (founded 1877), has always prided itself on doing things right. Because the best turf came from England, the founding fathers imported Seabright's first sod from across the Atlantic. Over the years, they also imported the best amateurs in the world to play in their invitation tournaments at Rumson, along the North Jersey shore. Since 1903, when Beals C. Wright won Seabright's Achelis Cup, the annual tournament has been a midsummer tradition on the Eastern tennis circuit, a pleasant prelude to the national championships...
...Under appalling conditions, Oxford beat Cambridge by 16 runs to 6. Oxford had 23 hits to Cambridge's 15, and scored two whole (sic) runs. The rain came down continuously during the first three innings and the sky was overcast until the close of play. The rain made the turf slippery and many players fell; the crowd was particularly amused at the downfall of a 250 lb. Oxford players, who in failing dug a large grave for himself. Both teams were composed of Americans; seven of the Cambridge, and at least three of the Oxford side being Harvard men. Playing...
...stopped to watch the plane come in to land. Tom Newman, 29, turned to his father and said: "Look, he's coming in low. Something is going to happen." Then, suddenly, the plane flopped over on its back and fell with an earth-shaking thud onto the green turf...