Word: deadlocker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the team in a scoreless deadlock late in the final period of yesterday's class championship game, Allen, left end of the Junior eleven, broke through to hurry Whiting's attempted forward pass. He knocked, the ball up in the air as it left the hand of the Sophomore back, and the pigskin descended into the waiting hands of Adams, 1928 guard, who with a clear field ran 45 yards for the touchdown that gave to the Juniors the University title and the right to meet the Yale class champions on Soldiers Field next Friday. The final count...
...very first game of the season did much to recast the optimism of returning Nassau students Amherst hell Captain Davis eleven to a 14 to 7 score, but it was not until a Washington and Lee eleven came out of the south to deadlock the Tiger that football prophets began to wonder. The Navy sank the Princeton bark, 27 to 13, a close victory over Lehigh and a four-touchdown verdict over the Quakers from Sophomore have been the only other engagements. By the time Palmer Stadium saw the naval antics of the midshipmen, the injuries and the gloom...
After battling through four hard-fought periods, the Sophomore and Senior football teams remained in a scoreless deadlock at the close of yesterday afternoon's game. Each team had scoring chances; the Sophomores lost an excellent opportunity in the first quarter when the 1927 line stiffened after yielding ground steadily before a strong attack, and then broke through to block a Sophomore drop-kick. Late in the second period, the 1929 team, with its backfield functioning in steam-roller style, pushed the pigskin to the Senior 15-yard stripe, and seemed to be headed for a sure touchdown, when...
...Pennsylvania, was a part of the labor news last week. She made a move to end the Passaic, N. J., textile workers' strike;* despatched a letter to Col. Charles S. H. Johnson, Vice President of the Botany Worsted Mills, conspicuous on the employers' side of the deadlock, urging him to recognize the union organization...
Excitement mounted feverishly last week as Canadians sought the polls for a general election. Canadian statesmen have been thwarted, hamstrung in their efforts to govern during the past year by a strangling deadlock between Liberals and Conservatives. Would the new election break this deadlock and give either Liberals or Conservatives a workable majority? Canadians pondered that question last week with an anxious, even prayerful, interest...