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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bunched hits in the fourth inning produced four University tallies and put the Crimson back in the game. McGrath doubled, went to third on Donaghy's single and home on a passed ball. Prior walked, Whitney fanned, and then Gilligan scored his captain from second with a sharp single. Batchelder, substitute for Dudley in the third, fanned, but Ticknor, who took Whitmore's place in the batting order when the latter went to the showers, knocked out a scratchy double, scoring Prior and Gilligan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RALLY IN NINTH FALLS SHORT | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

...team which faces West Point on Saturday will be composed of J. P. Cotton '29, No. 1; T. B. Glynn ocC, No. 2; E. T. Gerry '31, No. 3; and J. P. Mandell '29, back. E. K. Jenkins '31 will accompany the team as a substitute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON POLO TEAM TO PLAY ARMY ON SATURDAY | 5/16/1929 | See Source »

...victory for the slugging, slamming, slaughtering CRIMSON nine will follow the heels of the naval encounter. Robert Lampoon, stalwart stroke of the Mt. Auburn Street shell, will as usual be on the mound for the jester nine. It will be the diminutive southpaw's twenty-eighth attempt to turn back the board of Plympton Street bingles, and it will be his twenty-eighth failure. Despite the doomed position of his mates, the twirley was in good spirits last night, and it is thought that the little optimist actually hopes to hold his opponents total down to 21 or even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Cohorts Combat Comical Colleagues in Classic Crab Catching Crew Contest--Cup Clandestinely Confiscated | 5/16/1929 | See Source »

MacHale has showed steady improvement since the team's return from its Southern trip, having turned back Amherst for eight innings and handily defeated New Hampshire in his two starts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAFAYETTE PLAYS NINE HERE TODAY | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

Just then he noticed that the car that had caused his misfortune was occupied. A benign old lady leaned out the window and informed him that if only her husband were there he would be very glad to help him. Next it developed that her husband would not be back until dark, for he had left her there while he fished a nearby brook. She was going on to quote statistics about the length of time various friends of hers had been stuck in that same mud-hole when down the hill clattered a Ford bearing the local representative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

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