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Word: ball (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard passer, standing only four yards behind the line of scrimmage, completed a teas to a mate on Yale's 41 yard line. The receiver, in trying to lateral, threw the ball forward. This player in turn dashed down the field and was chased out of bounds on the Yale 21 yard line, but the referee in bringing the ball into the field of play put it down on the 16. And not one of the infractions was called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI LINE COACH WELLS TELLS MOVIE STORY ON H-Y CONTEST | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

Music by Ruby Newman, introductions by Heywood Broun '10, "schnozzle" by Durante, songs by Ethel Merman, and satire at the expense of Harvard will be part of the bill of fare at the first annual Gridiron Show and Ball of the Boston Newspaper Guild at the Hotel Statler, Thursday evening, January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard to Be Satirized at Hub Newspapermen's Show | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

...Madison Square Garden, the Budge backhand finally met the Vines forehand. It was the opening match of a 70-city Budge v. Vines professional tour, and 17,000 tennis enthusiasts gladly paid up to $7.70 a seat to see it: They breathlessly watched Budge serve his first ball-his first stroke under lights, indoors, for pay. The ball landed three feet beyond the baseline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Fault | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...these six practice tilts Charley Lutz proved that only one word is applicable to him--inimitable. He is by all odds the cleverest ball handler to wear the Crimson spangles since the start of Wes Fesler's coaching regime here. In Captain Lupien the Varsity quintet has a dependable defensive player and a sterling competitor. He gave B.U's Solly Nechtem a tough fight, never allowing him to get a shot within the free-throw area, and Lupe held his Wesleyan foe scoreless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

Doug MacLeod did not win a starting berth until the Terrier tilt, but he has proved himself to be a steady ball player. Fred Heckel is much more at home at forward than at guard, and he showed what he really could do in the Boston University game by amassing 17 points. Homer Peabody has improved steadily, and Bill Humes is ready to work in the relief role...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

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