Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gold Coasters took the lead in the second quarter after a sustained drive down the field, most of which was composed of power plays. Wally Chessman carried the ball over from the six yard line and Bill Becker dropkicked the point...
...article in The Saturday Evening Post, the pass is a normal part of the offense "set a dangerous maneuver to be used sparingly and in faint hope." He backs this statement up with the figures that in 1938 the Frogs passed 229 times and in 11 games lost the ball only seven times by interception, but 17 times by fumbles...
...plan of attack. Running and passing will be divided between Hovey Seymour and Fred Burr. Seymour was the captain and standout player of last year's unusually inferior Freshman team. He has both power and speed, but whether he has the deceptive change of pace of a first class ball-carrier remains to be seen, Burr is a letterman, passes and runs well, but never really got under way last fall...
Goings-on in Italy backed up the belief that Il Duce would continue to play ball with both sides. While he was speaking in Bologna, it was announced in Rome that Italian garrisons were being withdrawn from the Dodecanese Islands off Greece, a gesture in the Allies' favor. A few days earlier Italy and Greece had both moved back from the Greco-Albanian frontier. Italy sent an Ambassador, Giuseppe Bastianini, to the Court of St. James's, where she has had none since June. Italy made no protest last week when the British stopped an Italian ship...
Last week, when he had just about forgotten the galling incident, Golfer Nelson received an anonymous letter: "On September 3, during the golf tournament at Hershey . . . a lady in our party, one of my guests, unwittingly picked up your ball. She knows nothing about the game and did not realize what a lost ball means to a player. I did not learn about it until it-was too late. . . ." As he turned the page, three blue papers fluttered to the floor. They were three $100 money orders...