Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ducky Pond: "What a man that Tom Harmon of Michigan is! Boys, you can all thank your lucky stars that he couldn't get into Dartmouth. It wasn't a question of our folding up or wilting--Michigan really has a ball club. Harmon! He's tall, he's tan, he's terrific...
Basically, beagling is a spectator sport. Except that beagle-bugs run a little faster, puff and stumble a good deal more, there is little difference between chasing a hound that is chasing a rabbit and chasing a golfer who is chasing a golf ball. But beaglers, unlike golf fans, are mighty etiquetty. Their exclusive fraternity has honorary degrees, liveries and other traditions that date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth...
...Crimson looked like a real ball club in the first half, playing rings around the Indians and barely missing several more goals. Goalie Jack Penson scarcely had a workout until the beginning of the third period, when the Dartmouth forwards and the rain simultaneously began to pelt...
...slipperiness of the wet ball gave the Green booters an opportunity to which they added a new spirit gained during the half. Harvard's eleven relapsed into their slipshod habits of the past few weeks, bunching, muffing, and slowing down, and the result was that Doano, Indian left inside, and Eckhardt, high scoring center, hit pay dirt and tied up the score...
From the time of Eckhardt's goal, his ninth of the year, until the end of the game, the tide swung back the other way, and the ball spent most of the time in Dartmouth territory...