Word: balle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly got a laugh when you called the new German Ambassador to Washington a "fair" tennis player (TIME, Nov. 14). If you mean a fellow who does not say "OUT" every time a ball lands within five feet of the baseline, a fellow who remembers the score when he is losing, a fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this...
...closely as is possible in the debatable destinies of football the eastern championship. Halfbacks Garvey and Hammersley, substitutes for the great Bruce Caldwell, retired, broke out with 53 and 42 yard runs respectively, harrowed Harvard, 14-0. For the first time in 20 years Yale had rushed the ball for a touchdown over Harvard's goal line at Cambridge...
...Yale. By Yale's dual contract with Princeton and with Harvard, Caldwell can play no more Yale football. He can, however, play basketball & baseball in the winter & spring. †the same rules apply as in regular football except that it is unnecessary to tackle - a runner-with-the-ball...
...what all men who are civilized come to. Can we name the players? Not we. We sit in the Stadium with our minds higher in the clouds than the ever present airplane, our thoughts richly speculative. The article says, for example, "In a moment of thrilling suspense the ball was hurled down the field and the catcher let it slip from his hands. Here was a situation. . . The coach stood up on the side lines and with a refreshingly unsentimentalized characterization, told the player he had made an error." This is almost literature...
Stalwart Eddy Decker, Yale's defensive fullback, will bear watching. An ever-present bulwark to be met by Harvard ball-carriers, a veritable basket to throw forward passes into, and a powerful place of interfering material on the offense. Decker has an indomitable grit and spirit that keeps his teammates plugging. Garvey and Hammersley, both skillful runners, fair punters, and game youngsters will ably fill the missing Caldwell's place...