Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cool-headed Varsity played heads-up ball, retiring at the half on top of a 29 to 13 count. With Bruin forwards Jim Cooney and George Tyrrell catching fire and scoring nine points apiece after intermission, the visitors seemed sure of narrowing the margin until Crimson captain George Hauptfuhrer found the spree contagious and himself poured 14 points through the hoop before the finish...
...vote of 56 to 30. But the Republican high command was split wide open. Only the majority leader, Maine's feeble old Wallace H. White Jr., was on Vandenberg's side. Arrayed against him were the G.O.P. whip, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry; Minnesota's Joe Ball, once a red-hot internationalist who now decried efforts to rush the aid bill through as "a combination of blitzkrieg and the old mousetrap play"; and, most important of all, Bob Taft...
...hospitable fellow, a genial server of long tall drinks. He liked to sing in barbershop quartets. He was a good guy, most baseball writers agreed; but he "would trade his grandmother if the price was right." In his way, he had a certain amount of sentiment for his ball club. Last year, when he flew down to Mexico, rumors spread that he was selling the Cardinals to Mexico's Pasquel Brothers. Sam denied it. Said he, grinning: "The Cards are not for sale . . . that is, [unless] some one wants to pay five times what they're worth...
Yesterday was spent in polishing up defensive techniques and on recapturing the ball from the backboard. Passing, with was the weakest factor in the Freshman offensive against M.I.T., was also worked on, with special emphasis on timing and speed...
...year's dual drubbing by the Crimson, 61 to 48 and 53 to 40. Coach Morris' fast break style of play, as demonstrated by the Steamrollers, leads acute observers to suspect that the Brown quintet will forsake its former deliberate system for a Mid-western, fire-horse brand of ball...