Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduates at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in the mid-Twenties, under the tutelage of Ransom, then a young member of the school's faculty. After Ransom's moving reading the night before, four other Fugitives and two guests poets read from their poetry and patted each other on the back. After a while, the latter activity exceeded the former, and when the group played a recording of the late Merrill Moore reading "Death is the only language death can speak," along with several other poems on the same subject, some in the audience found the idea of the fugitive reunion...
...this stage of the season the half-back line is somewhat nebulous. Munro expects to start Charlie (sprained chin) Steele on the right, Bill Rapp at center, and sophomore Bill (bad charley horse) Driver on the left. Two other backs, Peter (sprained ankle) Erskine and Art (bad heel) Atkinson should be ready for some service by the beginning of the season...
...forward line can either be a bunch of All-Americans or dubs," says Munro, "but they have been improving in practice." Larry Ekpebu, who showed promise last year, will be at outside left. John Hedreen will open at inside left, Roger Tuckerman is back for his second year at center, John Mudd will start at inside right, and Dick McIntosh, a sophomore, will start at outside right...
Over Text. In Port Arthur, Texas, the Don Drive-in Theater advertised that its "Back-to-School" program would include "Hot Rod Rumble, Portland Expose, Teenage Doll, The Come On, Crime in the Streets, Young Guns, plus Glamour Gals of Burlesque...
...defensive work was impressive, the squad's offense often looked sadly unpolished. Too often the quarterback collided with the back to whom he was trying to hand off the ball, the runners seemed hesitant and unsure of their course, the line didn't work together in opening holes...