Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grid-graph system has a miniature playing field, with lights representing the kind of play, the position of the ball, and the player carrying the ball. All these lights flash simultaneously with the vocal description of the play as it is announced by radio. On the side of the board representing the gridiron other lights flash the score, the period, and the time left to play. Substitutions are also noted on the side of the board as each change in position occurs...
...four periods Princeton fought itself into a lather on a field as wet as a shampoo, with a ball as slippery as shaving soap, against Colgate. In the last minutes a sophomore from Dayton, Ohio (Abraham Mankat, Colgate) forced a safety by blocking a kick; whereupon his encouraged teammates scored a touchdown that dashed the championship hopes of the last of the Big Three. Score: Colgate 9, Princeton...
...giant Guard Raphael, Columbia downed Williams. Kaplan, Pease's understudy, did well as a field general, ran the team intelligently, tallied two touchdowns. Score: Columbia 26, Williams 0. On a field better suited to the activities of ducks than to the less web-footed endeavors of spike-shod ball-bearers, a muddy team from Pittsburgh beat a muddy team from Carnegie Tech...
...score entirely top-sided. Boos, together with Gentle, was the visitors' main threat, and together they divided Pennsylvania's four goals evenly. The only University score came late in the game, when with the invaders leading by three goals, Driggs, outside right on the Crimson eleven, sent the ball past Richmond by an individual effort...
...Crimson forwards, the William and Mary defenders stopped the Harvard backs short. Captain Elliott, M. Davis, Parsons, and especially Todd, aided by the half-backs, buried the "new" Crimson offense; even Crosby failed to gain much ground. Cheek was still saving his leg and did not carry the ball; Miller made a couple of good gains in the closing minutes, but by that time the William and Mary players, seven of whom played the entire game, were exhausted, and for the first time the charge of the Harvard forward line was effective...