Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green, with its brilliant McCall-Morton combination, should be favored among native onlookers who have watched the Indian team perform against Harvard and other Eastern rivals. Stanford, with two defeats by Southern California and California smirching its record, nevertheless boasts of a powerful attack which should put the two opponents on an even basis in case of wet conditions. Unfortunately for the visiting Westerners the Big Green aggregation is at the peak of its form; two weeks ago it laid low an undefeated Cornell team, and previous to that showed great strength against Harvard and Yale...
...bulk of the scoring was done late in the game by two brilliant faculty substitutes, M. L. McElroy '23 and A. R. Tebbutt, who worked out an array of trick plays on the side-lines while their team-mates played listlessly against a slow aggregation of students...
...powerful ground attack, supplemented by passes which were more popular a few years ago than they are now- long, risky forwards which need an expert passer at one end, an expert receiver at the other. Harvard's best running backs are Crickard and Schereschewsky; Nazro and Hageman are brilliant ends. But the essence of Harvard football this year, as Booth has been the essence of Yale football since his sophomore year, is William Barry Wood Jr., called "Barry" by sportswriters and "Bill" by friends...
...college socialite, Wood's best friends are other Harvard athletes-Mays, Record, Crickard and Charles Cunningham, his roommate, who is the football centre and hockey captain. A conscientious rather than brilliant student, Wood has a schedule that allows him no time for campus "activities." Nonetheless, he is president of the Student Council. Quiet and solemnly modest, he has no fondness for newspaper publicity. Particularly embarrassing to him was last week's sequel to the Harvard-Dartmouth game...
...Bill Nertney, 18-year-old apprentice jockey: two races (on A. W. Abott's Gay Bird, A. C. Schwartz's Flag Trick) and four second places in one day; at the autumn meeting at Pimlico, Md. A brilliant new "find" of Trainer J. H. ("Bud") Stotler, Jockey Nertney has ridden 60 winners since June. On the last day of the Pimlico meeting he fell, sustained a concussion of the brain...