Word: ball
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychological" edge that Harvard might have had disappeared on the following kickoff, as Jim Noonan fumbled the kick on his own fifteen. Army leaped happily on the ball--this was the first of four Crimson fumbles that the Cadets grabbed--and scored as Frank Fischl cracked to the three and Stephenson again pushed over through tackle...
...injured John White) for a three-yard loss on the 20 and then trapping Jim Noonan all the way back on the seven. Lowenstein punted out only to his 28, but Don Cass recovered an Army fumble before the Cadets could get going, and the quarter ended with the ball in Harvard's hands...
Army's kickoff was returned by Noonan nine yards to the 19. John West, spelling Paul Shafer at fullback, carried six times in seven plays to bring the ball to the Army 36 before Elmer Stout intercepted a fourth-down Lowenstein pass and ran 65 yards to score. Mackmull converted again...
Harvard, playing mostly against the Army second-stringers, scored twice in the second half before the Cadets raised their total. Runs by West and Shafer, three runs and two passes by Lowenstein, and three passes by Bill Henry brought the ball to the Army one-yard line, Henry sneaked over the goal...
...welcome absence of trivia. The arias get somewhere and the words are skillfully treated in the music. Only once does he allow himself to be led astray by his social conscience into a long scene in which the Negroes make fun of the gossipping society at Regina's ball...