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Word: attackers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With nearly half the team playing in unfamiliar surroundings, the Penn attack lost much of its vaunted swiftness, and the defense was often tentative and unsure...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Team Downs Penn, 2-0; Makes Bid for Ivy League Title | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...today midway through the first period when he leaped high on the Harvard 40-yard line to intercept a Larry Purdy pass out of the hands of Penn's speedy halfback, Dave Coffin. Boulris got away from Coffin and returned the interception back to the Penn 42. The Crimson attack, which had been sluggish thus far, could move the ball only seven yards on the tries, but with fourth down and three yards to go on the Penn 35, Boulris smashed over right guard, tore loose from several linebackers, and outdistanced the deep defenders to score...

Author: By F. W. Byron jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Underrated Crimson Eleven Beats Penn | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...more than the ebullience of youth, and deplored only China's choice of victims. "We tell them," he said, "that they can kick up their heels, but not against those who have not offended them." To some indignant Indian editorialists this seemed tantamount to inviting Red China to attack Formosa, Hong Kong. Laos or any other nation that displeased it, just so long as peaceful India were left alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Patient One | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...next two months, hard-punching Duffy, who once drew Franklin D. Roosevelt's arm brandishing a blackjack over the U.S. Supreme Court, will fill in for the Post's liberal (and two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner) Cartoonist Herbert Lawrence ("Herblock") Block, 50, decommissioned last September by a heart attack. For a while the Post got along by running the work of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Bill Mauldin and others, but Post Publisher Philip Graham decided that Herblock needed a fulltime pinch hitter. Herblock agreed. "He went madly for the idea," said Graham. "I had Duffy down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Pinch Hitter | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Unbalanced Ferocity. This year they have made it. As a curt nod to modern times, Schwartzwalder has installed the winged-T. But basically the Syracuse attack is built around an anachronistic, unbalanced single-wing line that double-teams and cross-blocks with old-fashioned ferocity. To get the most out of his boys, Drillmaster Schwartzwalder relieves the pressure of practice with some heavyhanded, country-style kidding. "But there's no laughing on game days," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boys from Syracuse | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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