Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost so many men by injury I believe Harvard would have won. In the first place, all our kickers were on the injured list, and this meant that Campbell, the little halfback, had to kick, though he had never before kicked in a game. Gardiner, the tackle, broke his arm in the first five minutes, then Potter wrenched his knee, an a little later Gardner at quarterback was hit in the head. Harvard was a crippled and defeated team. When this team met Yale a few weeks later, there had been all kinds of changes made. It was a manufactured...
...doubtful whether the tennis expedition to Washington and Annapolis was worth the expense. Out of the possible four days for tennis, it rained steadily during two of them, on another Harvard played a Washington team with the temperature hovering at thirty-nine, and against Navy on Saturday a downpour broke loose half way through the match. The team could have had more practice indoors at Cambridge. Even the lacrosse team, which played its games through mud and rain, spent money which could better be used for some under-coached or ill-equipped minor sport. Soccer, fencing and polo are obvious...
...Jumbos staged a strong rally to the score up at four all as the half ended. Pete Urbon, Tufts goalie, held the Crimson at bay with his spectacular work in the nets until late in the third period, when Stahley's first attack of Cleveland, Hunsacker and Hammond, broke loose to score three goals. Hammond clinched the decision in the fourth, scoring his fifth and sixth goals...
...delighted Columbia executives that Mr. Paley had a bad case of microphone fright. Hovering around him in his office at Columbia's Madison Avenue studios in Manhattan were two production men, two vice presidents, one engineer, two page boys. There were duplicate microphones in case one broke down, a precaution not usually taken with either Jack Benny or President Roosevelt...
Outstanding among the Harvard forwards was Austie Scott, the acting captain. He broke away several times to start passing rushes and scored one try himself...