Word: ball
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prominent military and legislative officials from all over the country will be invited to the first annual military ball sponsored by the Department of Military Science at Harvard, which will probably take place in February...
...short stick rounded at one end and a hard rubber ball, together with the necessary ice, were all the implements for the first games of "ice polo", as the sport was known in Cambridge in 1896. There were no limits to the rink and so no player could be off side, and the games-generally developed into cross-country chases in which the man with the best wind kept ahead of his foe and scored goals...
...stray overcoat was the best apology for a net that could be found. Wild shooting sent the pucks into orchards and meadows and deep tangled wildwoods beyond the confines of the pond rink and no sandlot baseball game was ever more defendant on the finding of the only ball in the party than was the Harvard hockey team on the luck of the seekers after lost pucks...
Since the opening of the basketball season two weeks ago the squad has been gradually increasing. Coach E. A. Wachter has been featuring passing, ball handling, and footwork. All the practice has been with teams divided as evenly as possible, and no attempt has been made to form a first string lineup...
...scouting a play of this sort, because it plans and specifications to explain it thorough The only practical way to scout it would be backs may have the ball and the best way to four before they had a chance...