Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prospects for abundant wingmen of high calibre have indeed looked so bright that S. C. Burns '30, former schoolboy and Freshman star, has been transfered to the backfield, and W. G. Saltonstall '28, lone Crimson scorer in last year's Bowl encounter, has been enabled to devote his entire time to his multiple official and scholastic duties. G. K. Brown '28, who was one of the leading end prospects until yesterday, has been shifted to the backfield where he will be given a try-out at quarter...
...never let TIME forget that phrase of mine, not so long as I catch it like I do this week. Gracious sakes alive oh me oh my! What a sweet lot of old ladies you must think your readers are, to publish in your SPORT department this description of bowling on the green! [TIME, Aug. 29.] Bowling on the green !! Who called that a sport anyhow ? It sounds like old ladies' stuff to me, rolling little balls on the ground and not even socking anything with them! And then you have to insult all the decent men who, like...
...game was bowls. Expert leadsmen,* and skippers,† oldsters mostly, gathered last week at Franklin Field in Boston. Here teams of four were playing for the U. S. championship, which, after many a ball had glittered over a smooth patch of turf, was awarded to Buffalo. In these championship matches the game was a network of rules and conventions. As in all modern bowling-on-the-green, however, the general procedure was this: the first player, or lead, sent his bowl-the size of an indoor baseball-into one of the rinks marked off on a 40-yard square green...
...Britain was gambling. A dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl for a race course...
Yale Field is to be renamed Walter Camp Field. At the entrance to the fields, and directly in front of the Yale Bowl will be built an archway of brick and stone, 7 feet wide and 5 feet high. Over the arched entrance the inscription "Walter Camp Field" will be carved in stone...