Word: balling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days became lazier, they put on pads and helmets and put into practice a strange system of football. At times they wished that they had never come out. A half dozen quit. Yet in the end, they slowly became aware that they were learning to move the ball. Spring practice was over, and soon after, they were off to Summer jobs...
...welcome home for Paul O'Brien, Sam Butler, and Ralph Bender when I ignored them at the Monday morning eleven o'clock because I blamed them for letting Cornell backs get through the center of the line. I forgot that they were playing their first year of varsity ball...
...Provincetown blonde wanted to show me the Village, and I showed her Palmer Stadium. She wanted to know why Harvard never carried the ball. It was too much to explain to her. She never did understand that Art Hyde, despite getting a rough going over, was buzzing the Princetons like a fighter plane after a flock of heavies. She couldn't comprehend either that it was possible to make every mistake in the game, and still remain a team...
Only in the last period's desperation passing attack could the Elis move the ball, and they finally scored on a one yard buck by their captain, Al Test...
...Although groundskeepers covered the Stadium sward with canvas last night, the rain which weather forecasters say will continue throughout today may eventually mean slippery footing and a wet ball--which would hurt Valpey's precise, ballet-like single wing spinners and pitchouts more than it would affect Hickman's straight-ahead T attack...