Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes that story so regrettable is not that it is totally wrong--in cross-country the team with the least points wins--but that it probably made little or no impression on the Traveler's readers. The American sports fan is brought up in a society where the person or team with the most takes the laurels, whether it be in dollars, runs, goals, or points. Why should the fan be expected to realize that the Crimson's 23 points were worth more than...
Cross-country as a team competition is run on an antiquated system of scoring which not only deceives the average fan, but is also a psychological drawback to the average runner. Consider first, the system as it is recognized by the NCAA...
...best in all Europe. But by the time it went to Russia last week (at Moscow's cordial invitation), the team stood 15th among Britain's top 22 teams. Before the game with the Moscow Dynamos was half over, the most disciplined Soviet sports fan was beginning to doubt the party line; "Britain's best" were playing like footsore stumblebums. The Dynamos won easily...
...Graaf took over then and fired both a succession of incomplete passes and the imagination of every wildly cheering Harvard fan. The Crimson took over the ball and ran out the clock. With fourth down and one to go on his own 45, Marsh elected to run and Jimmy Joslin picked up the first down. It was the right way to run off the clock, just as the 77' yard drive was the right...
...could hardly be conventional good looks. Brando has a nose that drips down his face, according to a make-up man, "like melted ice cream" (it caused him to flunk his first screen test ten years ago). But then again, as one fan tried to explain, he does have a kind of "lyric lunkishness-he looks like a Lord Byron from Brooklyn." Is sex appeal his secret? No doubt about it, said one producer: "He's a walking hormone factory." An exhibitor, musing about his own business, said: "He's everybody between 10 and 20 that comes into...