Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that particular day. Overhead, grey clouds turned black near the end of the first period. I wish I could tell you more about how they kept on playing for three more periods when electric lights were going out in Boston. But then I'd have to tell you how Bill Henry, a guy who kept statistics at last year's Yale game, showed the stuff that made him Harvard's offensive quarterback...
...next week at West Point I was cheering for O'Brien, Butler, and Bender. I out-howled the Army major next to me watching the mighty efforts of Howie Houston. I thumbed through my program to find out that number 77's name was Willie Davis. When Army center Bill Yeomans was flattened by Crimson guard John Coan, I slapped the major on the back. And at the end of the game, I saw the Crimson, standing at attention, better than the Cadets, while the Band played "Fair Harvard." I didn't gave a damn that we'd lost...
...combat in the center of the field, jayvee tailback Dave Warden tossed a 30-yard pass which Rick Hudner grabbed under the eyes of two Yale halfbacks and took out of bounds on the one-yard line. Dune Mauran plowed over for the first score on the next play. Bill Rosenau missed the point, and at the end of the half the Crimson...
Rules in those days varied with each team. Magenta sports editors were a little confused about the rules on "players picking up the ball and then being chased." But even without Bill Bingham, rules and regulations were soon worked...
...Bill Pinkerton, another 1940 Nieman, revealed the extent of his infusion in College life in his report at the end of his year: "The extracurricular teaching by the faculty and students of Adams House has been important. I have developed a great deal of the 'old school tie' feeling about Adams House during these six months . . . from eating day after day with faculty and undergraduates, I have formed a new opinion of college professors and have gained new insights into 'the undergraduate mind...