Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
ELMER THE GREAT?Ring Lardner's ball-playing dope, perfectly impersonated by Walter Huston (TIME...
...French is an excellent ball-carrier and player, as well as being a great sportsman" is the opinion of M. E. Sprague, captain of the Cadet eleven and for three years and All-American tackle. Sprague was forced to leave the game early on account of a broken nose. Sprague also complimented the Crimson ends. "The Harvard wings were stopping play after play, overshadowing the rest of the linemen. The first disastrous fumble paving the way for our subsequent touchdown was the result of a bad pass from center but the fumble were merely the breaks of the game which...
This accounts for the occasional retractions of the loud speaker: "Brown has the ball. He's off! He's through for forty-yards! No, wait a minute, folks, I think it was Jones carried it. Wait a minute, now, we'll see about this . . . . (Long Pause) . . . . It was Smithers who took the ball, folks, a beautiful run of 15 yards . . . ." Sometimes a keen listener over the radio may hear the voice of the press announcer before the radio man gets...
...team, a few facts will speak volumes. Army employes a charging style of game that calls for hard-running backs. And in Cagle, Murrell and others Army has just such backs. The most famous of the ball-luggers is Christian "Red" Cagle, whom Grantland Rice placed at halfback on his first All-American team last year. Heretofore, Red has confined his activities to running and passing. This season he is also punting,--thus becoming a formidable "triple threat...