Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dick Harlow's 1947 squad may not be the top-ranking team in the nation, but tomorrow night they will dominate a banquet and ball in the Waldorf-Astoria to which more than 100 college football stars have been invited. The only complete team in the country to be so honored, the Crimson players and their guests will be the guests of Walter S. Mack '17, former Varsity football manager, at the affair given for the benefit of the Outdoor Cleanliness Association of New York. Mack is now president of the Pepsi Cola Company...
...some loose ends and misconceptions about the Yale game. Primarily, certain of the Hub's fourth estate, after seeing, the official movies, and without the benefit of coaching (Crimson or otherwise) from the sidelines, strongly implied in print last night that atrocious officiating had cost the visiting team the ball game. We state this merely as news facts and take no subjective stand until viewing the movies ourselves in the next...
...points, the Crimson tried a lateral pass play from punt formation. The effort failed principally because of a bad pass from center, which in turn was unavoidable because John Florentine's arm had been hit earlier and was stiffening up. Chuck Roche tried to pick up the ball in a hurry and his pass was incomplete...
Pridi Banomyong's henchman, Prime Minister Thamrong-Nawasawat, was dancing a tango at a charity ball one moonlit night two weeks ago when a friend whispered warning words in his ear. The Premier took it on the lam for a lamasery. Meanwhile Phibun's military friends, using Siam's 20 or so ancient little Swedish and Japanese tanks and armored cars, took over Bangkok. Phibun, as new Supreme Commander of Siamese Forces, entered the Defense Ministry on the shoulders of cheering soldiery. Many officers prostrated themselves in homage...
Demaret casually steps up and hits the ball. He insists, like most golfers, that the game is the most trying of all sports ("It is the only sport where the ball is still. There is so much time for contemplation of every move you're going to make that the nerves wear thin"). But his nerves seldom show...