Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
Although ragged at times the play of the Varsity indicated that Coach Wes Fesler's prediction of a "better team" will be fulfilled. Ball handling and shooting were especially advanced for the first game...
...admits that he might be wrong even on this. From a large squad of 55, Skip has picked 18 men who can handle the ball easily and find the hoop with regularity, but whether they top the average is anybody's guess...
...game drew to a close, it looked as if Vanderbilt and Alabama would each end the season with one defeat: the score stood 7-to-6 in Vanderbilt's favor. Then Alabama's portly Coach Thomas waved Haywood ("Sandy") Sanford, 200-lb. sophomore, into the game. The ball lay on Vanderbilt's 14-yd. line over at the edge of the field, in Alabama's possession and in imminent danger of being lost on downs. Sandy Sanford stepped back and at a 45-degree angle booted a place-kick true between the goal posts. Score: Alabama...
...Whizzer White would regain from Sid White (no relation) of Brooklyn the national scoring lead among college footballers. When the Colorado-Denver game began, Sid was ahead of Whizzer 113-to-100. This season Whizzer had averaged a gain of more than seven yards every time he carried the ball, had averaged 45 yards with his punts, had completed nearly half the forward passes he had thrown, and Denver was prepared to bottle him up. But Denver's preparations did no good. He scored three touchdowns, threw passes that led to two more, kicked four points-after-touchdown...