Word: balled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their frequent Eight-Ball dinners, members of the Greater Los Angeles Press Club like to rub elbows with men of distinction. President Truman addressed the club once; so did Vice President Alben Barkley and General Mark Clark. The guest speaker at the next dinner, the members decided, should be Manhattan's urbane and ubiquitous Frank Costello, sometime bootlegger and big-time gambler...
...second play of the game, Michigan's spinning fullback gave the ball to a halfback who smacked Army's line for two yards. When the players unpiled, blond, 188-lb. Chuck Ortmann, Michigan's passing ace, was lugged off on a stretcher. That was the first omen of calamity. Then it seemed as though the big stadium had begun falling...
...goals in the first period gave Harvard an early start, and the team eased along from there, controlling the ball in Army zone most of the time. It was a far better Crimson forward attack than the one which feebly opposed Cornell and Amherst and lost during the past week...
Without wasting any opportunities, newly-promoted outside left Jim Johnson picked up a loose ball in the Army goal-mouth and opened the Crimson scoring at 3:15 of the first period. Later, at 19:30 of the first period outside right Ben Goldstern passed beautifully to center forward Ted Wolf in what looked like the best-executed Crimson play in the year...
...They played 22 minutes of excellent ball in the first quarter; they played soccer as it should be played," Munro said. "But the rest of the game was spotty and too much like coasting...