frosh
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The 1999 movie “Varsity Blues,” which mocked adults in football-mad Texas, showed one dad bragging to another that he was “gonna hold our Troy back a year so he’ll be bigger for frosh tryouts.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
He made a blip on NBA radars before sustaining a season-ending head injury early in his frosh year, but couldn’t find his fit as a sophomore and played a minor role with the Volunteers.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
I sold T-shirts to universities, like promotional T-shirts for frosh week and bookstore apparel and stuff.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2021
As frosh Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib express, Lewis and others provided a blueprint for how to do this work, and in Lewis’ case especially, how to sustain it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
That night Joe went home and wrote in his scrapbook, “Two miles: 10:36. Gotta take eight seconds off to be the fastest frosh crew ever!!!”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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