Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this didn't slow down the freshmen. A group of candidates organized a torchlight parade that circled the Yard to the tune of brass bands until unsympathetic Yard police chased them to a standing concert in front of the Union. A fake assassination, complete with caps, ketchup, and bodyguards was held after lunch one day, followed by a dragon slaying...
After an early Yardling drive had ended with a fumble on the Yale 33, the Elis, with Doug Treat gaining consistently through the middle on a fake pass play, went to the Yardling 35, before the Crimson finally held. Then Treat punted a ball that hit the goal line, but had enough reverse spin to stop dead on the four...
...half back, stationed well outside the end, who becomes a man-in-motion threading his way through the backfield on practically every play. This system is well-suited to tricky reverses and laterals, for the wingback can either take a hand off from one of the other backs, fake a reverse and continue on out for a pass, or go directly out from the flank for a pass...
Last summer, to get the animals they needed, the research advocates drew up a proposition for the ballot. Against them were the usual animal defense crews and such outfits as the Mercy Crusade, Tail-waggers' Foundations and Animal Allies. Fake pictures of torture of animals were stuffed under doors. Grisly tales were circulated that doctors, not content with canine victims, were mangling babies. Handouts denounced medical researchers as fiends, ghouls, sadists, murderers...
Bernie Bierman is an institution. Time was when he was a great man, whose power football was the best in the land. To beat him, other Big Ten coaches earned to pass, to spin, to fake, to run fast...