Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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3716 900th!!! 56115014 . At. W1 Wealeyan students spent the early fall afternoons wattrhing the foothall squad in its tirst practit'e ses- siuns. and for the first time since these onlonkers had come to college. the magnificent sight of Big Jim Carrier. txhich in the three years previous had done- more than anything else to holster their hopes for a sut'cessfut season. was a thing of the past. Thv loss of Carrier Has perhaps the most severe handi- t'ilp whit'h Coau'h Fester had to face, hut the ah- Ilc'mI L'mll'll II ex Ft'hlttl'. 591100 0f 'd dozen or 101'6 GXPPI'i- cured linemen mused hy gradua- tion or war servive, proved a dith- vult ohstaclo to his efTorts to place a winning combination on the foothall fivld in 1942. Although several .lluntlgcr Tillmunns, .4sxislanl Lmrrvm'u Cum-Izing 511W debates siran'gy during pl mrih'r .xcssiun.

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Curu'll Daniels, Cupmin Kay. 6-2, followed by a ten inning loss to Trinity, 3-4. Then the Red nine proceeded to rout Massachu- setts 16-9, and lose a similar contest to Connecticut, 16-3. After he- ing vanquished by Yale, 6-2, the Dan- ielsmen went on to lose to Williams, 6-5, in a last inning break. In the final game with Amherst, Kay,s ninth in- ning homer sent the Cardinals 011 to a 0m 3,8,1,ng Thing 5-4 victory. Cfdfk . The 742 Spring trackmen had an excel- lent season, winning all but one of their meets. The team heat Springfield twice, 67-44 and 65-61. Connecticut and Tufts were the other victims, 6715-5015 and 67-59. In the Hnal Little Three meet, the Martinmen were only able to score 431A: t0 Amhersfs 62V: and Willianfs 47. 27

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J'iIKIHTZ Sutluu'xlri. Henson, Morton, Dunllus, Olson, liIIIIIII'I'FlH'l' leml, Parmiis. Ix'upira, Mamard. Srztiuxn: Courh Wand. Biler. Pw'lvr. Wiilllm's. Williams, Bridges. Emmi. Crzwsx, Miller. Hvllill, Crmrh Fvslvr, THIRD: Wilkinsnn, Ifurnvlt. Allisnn. Sweel, Cartel: Ihmiclx. Sz'lm'vnlr. Immmrrl. Burmn. Grru'i's. lhlrlclt'v, freshmen 0f varsity valihre added prmnise t0 the cuming season, Fesierk second Wesleyan team compiied a record which paralleled that Of hlst yeark mediocre eleven. In eight games, the 1942 Cardinals gained three victories and sustained ftve defeats. An Argus sports writer put his finger on the cause of the team's failure to live up to promise when he wrote, in descrihing the Bowdoin contest, that the Cardinal team 44seemed composed of eleven good football players who just couldnat get to- gether long enough to do any real harm to their 15ml around PIM- 29