Word: deacon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot also continued its winning ways by edging a previously undefeated Kirkland squad by two points in an up and down, 31 to 29 game. The score changed almost as often as shots were sunk, but despite heroic efforts by the Deacon's tall center John Lombard, a last minute basket and foul by Fred England clinched the game for the Mastodons...
...Cried a deacon: "An old sheep, he know the road." The chorus swelled to a kind of triumph: "That's right. That's right. Unh-hunh...
Although Kirkland led all the way, the margin was never great enough for either team to relax and the starting lineups played practically all the game. Two factors gave Kirkland the win: effective coverage of Winthrop's 6'7" pivot, Ted Nelson by John Lombard, and the Deacon fast breaks which frequently shot into the clear. Lombard at center and John Pankey at forward did most of the Kirkland damage on the offensive...
...still a market--on Saturday evenings Dock Square is a frenzy of buying and selling, pushcarts laden with produce, chatter in half a dozen tongues. And looking down from its perch high above the Tower squats the huge grasshopper weather-vane. Hammered from sheet copper in 1742 by Deacon Shem Drowne, this grasshopper has sat atop Faneuil Hall for 200 years. In the earthquake of 1775 it fell to the street and suffered a broken leg, but was run up again as fast as it could be repaired...
...field to a first down on the 25. Three plays failed to make ground and Rossiter appeared to be trapped on his fourth down desperation pass attempt but he wriggled loose from several tacklers and threw a long, high, floppy pass to Harvey Guild who caught it over a Deacon defender's head deep in the end zone for a touchdown. Rossiter screen-passed for the extra point, making the halftime score...