Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most part factory workers (at about $125 a month) for the company (Bona Allen leather company) that owns the team. The other half of the semi-pro class play on teams owned by small-town merchant groups or individuals with $5,000 and a yen to own a ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers, lumberjacks, bootblacks and other workmen who play baseball three times a week (two twilight games and one on Sunday) for a little...
...Harvard's first great football team since the days of Barry Wood went into the closing minutes of the Princeton game trailing 14-7. All afternoon it had stubbornly battled the fast. Crislor machine on almost even terms. With but a couple of minutes to play Harvard had the ball just inside Tiger territory, and the long pass was called...
...building also contains facilities for basketball, badminton, and volley ball. It will be ready for use about the first of October...
Quarterback Oakes took the ball, faded back, and sent a forty-yard pass into the air. Bob Stuart, fastest Harlow back, had only the safety man to boat. The pass went just out of reach of that Nassau safety man, and Stuart clutched it, juggled it for a second, as he nestled it in his arms, and crossed the goal line standing up. Russ Allen was called back from the line to boot the ball squarely between the uprights to tie the game and put Harvard football where it belonged...
...punt over the goal line gave Harvard the ball on its own 20-yard stripe carly in the fourth quarter. The stage was set for an 80-yard march the like of which few Harvard men in the stands ever recalled. At least three of the plays would have been touchdown romps from long distances, but on each occasion Frank, playing all over the field, made the tackle. Then, from the 14-yard line, tailback Frank Foley started an end skirt which saw him outdash the exhausted Frank and cross the goal line standing...