Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Discarding the system he employed in his first four years as the Crimson mentor, Fesler has adopted the Purdue type of offense. Instead of certain fixed plays as in the past, the new system is based on "working the ball" in toward the basket with sudden breakes intended to set up a score. For the inauguration of this offense, which requires above all else clean, swift ball-handling, Fesler has at present a lineup of three seasoned regulars from last year and two adopt newcomers...
...year's Yardling captain, and John Herrick, Varsity reserve center a year ago, completing the first team. As Bill Gray's understudy Herrick saw considerable action in last season's games and although still slightly awkward, the six foot six center has greatly improved in handling himself and the ball on the floor. In Lutz, Fesler has found as sure a passer and deceptive a dribbler as any of the more experienced members of the squad...
...this the old soldier recounted, in pompous language but frank detail, in memoirs which he wrote for his kinsmen only. He was aware that he had led a remarkable life, believed that he had lived in a remarkable age. After his right hand was crippled at Ball's Bluff, he learned to write with his left. But his left arm was paralyzed at Antietam, so when he sat down to tell the story of his life he shifted back to the crippled right...
...cooperate with the President if it killed them. Not until Recession had softened his mood, however, was Franklin D. Roosevelt ready to listen. The situation, both Business and the President must know, is now too critical for malice on either side. If the President is as willing to play ball with Business as he reports himself to be, Business now has the ball with three years to go on the President's term...
Williams, playing a defensive game throughout, was unable to cope with a strong Crimson attack. The ability of the winners to get the ball off the backboard enabled them to control the ball for the greater part of the encounter...