Word: balled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first quarter. Late in the second period he just missed a spectacular, diving shot at the left corner of the Tufts goal, and he nearly scored from a sitting position in the third session after running 10 yards on his hands and knees to reach the ball. He got his second score at 12:35 of the third period, taking a perfect pass from wing Tadgh Sweeney and drilling it into the left side of the nets...
...Badgered by a bad back, and no longer able to throw the long ball, cleft-chinned, curly-haired Quarterback Ronnie ("Golden Boy") Knox, 24, quit the Toronto Argonauts in Canada's rugged Big Four, thereby put an end to one of football's most unfulfilled and peripatetic careers (three high schools, two colleges, four pro teams), which had largely been botched by the boisterous stage-mothering of stepfather Harvey Knox. "Football is a game for animals," said Ronnie. "I like to think I'm above that." Dreaming of higher things, Ronnie allowed he might toss...
...have won. But he ordered the regiments available (some 4,000 men) to charge; the British held, then advanced. Their 32-year-old general, attired in a splendid new uniform and waving a cane, was an easy target for snipers. Just before victory was certain he fell, a musket ball through his lung. (Hours later, the Marquis de Montcalm also died of his wounds.) It was. Author Hibbert says, the death Wolfe always wanted; months before, he had written in a clumsy paraphrase of Horace: "Those who perish in their duty and in the service of their country, die honourably...
Coach John Yovicsin aptly summed up his feelings when he said "for a first ball game, our first two groups did as well as we expected." Charlie Ravenel sparked his team by producing the spectacular play at just the right moment--an opening 11-yard quarterback sneak, a pass to halfback Albie Cullen which set up the first touchdown, and an option play again to Cullen to set up the second score...
After employing a straight running attack for a while, Ravenel opened up the game with two passes--the first to Captain Hank Keohane (nullified by a penalty) and the second to Cullen who caught the ball on the run and didn't stop until the 3-yard line. Fullback Glenn Haughie cut through a hole at left guard and the onslaught had begun...