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

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

And Megan has been quick to praise contemporaries including her friend Maliibu Miitch and fellow XXL frosh, Rico Nasty, in interviews.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2019

The Cal frosh fairly skimmed over the water, their oars coming well clear of the waves between strokes and digging cleanly into them on the catch at the beginning of each stroke.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown