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Word: ball (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finishing touches on the team. Saturday was a perfect day for a game. "Dick" Lewis led the team onto the field and soon the game began. After the kick-off it was nip and tuck for a while, but we soon were under way and carried the ball from our own forty-yard line for a touchdown. After we had scored once, the game was ours despite the cries of "Now for dear old Yale." We scored again in the second half, and the game ended with the ball on Yale's one-yard line...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...been very successful, while Yale had suffered two defeats, one by West Point and the other by Brown. However, Harvard was unable to win, the game resulting in a scoreless tie, which under the circumstances seemed almost impossible. Harvard showed herself to be stronger, but could not get the ball over the line...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...recalled to your mind how afraid all were that Harvard would not win. A better team, perhaps, but they never seem to be able to beat Yale! And how after the kick-off we exchanged kicks with Yale for awhile and then how they fumbled and Storer recovered the ball for a touchdown? And how we got two goals from the field and were able again by a perfectly executed play to carry the ball over the goal line? Again how in the last quarter Yale tried the much-heralded Minnesota shift and were able to carry the ball...

Author: By Percy LANGDON Wendell, | Title: NO MEMBER OF '13 EVER DEFEATED BY YALE IN FOOTBALL | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...Ball games scheduled for tomorrow are: Adams vs. Lowell and Leverett vs. Dudley in softball; and Eliot vs. Winthrop and Kirkland vs. Dunster in hardball. On the tennis courts the Elephants will bat the ball about with the Puritans, while Kirkland faces Dunster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL, DEACONS, ADAMS CONQUER IN HOUSE GOLF | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

Lawrence grabbed a one run lead in their first time at plate on a single, an error, and a passed ball which allowed Frankie McTighe to score from third. But the Yardlings tied it up in their half of the inning when Lee Hartstone tallied on two boots, a stolen base, and Charlie Davis' infield grounder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAWRENCE NINE BOWS TO YARDLING BATTERS | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

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