Word: booths
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Wood, the Crimson back, was tall, dark, and powerful. Booth was small, crafty, and famous for his kicking ability. Both men played in their Sophomore year--1929, and Booth flubbed a field goal attempt as Harvard triumphed, 10 to 7. Wood made it two successive rounds for him the following year with a 13 to 0 victory...
Careful analysis and second-sighting on previous encounters seem to reveal that the outstanding tendency is not one for upsets as such but instead for tremendous personal disappointments in a sort of poetically justified way, with the far-famed Barry Wood-Albie Booth rivalry of the turn of the twentieth century's third decade providing one of the outstanding examples...
...Albie arrived in 1931. Wood and company marched into the Stadium with a spotless record and an abundance of confidence, but after sixty minutes of play the Elis were on top by a score of 3 to 0--the lone and determining field goal having been contributed by Mr. Booth...
...Football Team: Left End Fisher, H Winthrop Left Tackle Adams J. H. Eliot Left Guard Myers, D. E. Eliot Center Wilson, D. B. Adams Right Guard Bickel, G. P. Eliot Right Tackle Johnson, W. B. Eliot Right End Livermore, S., Jr. Adams Quarterback Means, R. G. Eliot Left Half Booth, H. F. Adams Right Half Boyce, J. P. Eliot Fullback Brogden, H. J. Eliot...
...Exeter Academy in 1914, he found the school deep in traditions and a $250,000 debt. It had been founded the year Cornwallis surrendered, by John Phillips, whose nephew, Samuel Phillips, started Andover. Daniel Webster went to Exeter; Presidents Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland sent their sons. Other Exonian notables: Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Banker Thomas W. Lament (now president of the trustees...