Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fordham at New York City's Polo Grounds last week, a St. Mary's back sent a terrific punt from midfield deep into the left-hand corner of Fordham's territory. Fordham's Maniaci, standing just inside the goal line, was watching which way the ball would bounce. To his surprise it bounded from the turf to his hip, his helmet, then rolled into the end zone. While he was deciding what to do next, St. Mary's Meister fell on the ball, thus converting what might have been a touchback into a touchdown...
...opera house and swinging from rope to rope so that wild pieces of scenery appear behind the singers. As a climax Groucho substitutes plebeian music on the racks, causing the orchestra at a turn of the score-page to swing from Trovatore into Take Me Out to the Ball Game while Groucho enters down the aisle, selling popcorn and peanuts...
...house on S Street, helped entertain the Hoover friends. When, in 1929, the Hoovers moved to the big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, the intimacy continued. Never have President and journalist been closer. Timid and distrustful of newshawks in general. President Hoover put Pundit Sullivan in his "Medicine Ball Cabinet," had him to breakfasts, took him on fishing trips,* called him often to the White House for long, confidential talks. Result was that Mark Sullivan became, to other Washington correspondents' envy and chagrin, an authoritative Administration spokesman in his own right. Pundit Sullivan sometimes differed with the President...
Climaxing a strong offensive game during the first period, the Puritans swept the ball from the Yale 20-yard line for a touchdown. P. H. Johnson '38 carried. The ball was returned, however, because of a Harvard offside...
...three and a half scoreless periods the Crimson kept the ball well into enemy territory. But the unorthodox eleven man defense which the visitors presented prevented any material success of the five-man attack...