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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock two scrub teams entered the Stadium. Coach Fisher gave Team A the ball on its 20-yard line. By fast and powerful linebucks, the University team easily carried the ball to midfield. Spalding, Hammond, Gehrke, and Miller worked with the precision usually found in a backfield toward the middle of the season. The pigskin was then returned to the University's 30-yard line, and Team A again drove it to midfield. The ball was moved about by the coaches arbitrarily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A AND B TEAMS SCORE ONCE EACH IN FIRST SCRIMMAGE | 9/25/1924 | See Source »

Coach Cowles said yesterday fast all men who expect to come out for the tennis team in the spring should enter this tournament as its results will affect his choice of the squad of men who will practice on the indoor court at Long wood Cricket Club during the early part of the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COWLES STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF FALL TENNIS TOURNAMENT | 9/24/1924 | See Source »

When Johnson came out of the gulches of Idaho to start service for Washington in 1907, a dilemma arose. So fast did he throw a ball that no average catcher could "hold him." Finally "Gabby" Street was found. "Gabby" talked a lot but could catch and hold anything, even a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument. After Street, Edward Ainsmith was discovered. At present one "Muddy" Ruel risks his palms and finger tips stopping Johnson's 'bulletlike "in visibles." Tall, blonde, 37 a native of Humboldt, Kan., father to three sons, John son has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Valuable | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...exception there may be, that is at end; Bingham seems to be the more favored for the position than Hart. Bingham played regularly in the wing job last year while Hart was a substitute. Both are very fast but Bingham is of a slightly more stocky build and has his weight better balanced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Has Potent First Eleven, but Seconds Are Weak, Says Yale Observer | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...could have whipped Champion Dempsey.) "Ho, Ho! Dempsey wouldn't have lasted any time. Made to order for Sam-poor Sam. Ah, gee, what a great fighter Now about . . . Firpo. I'll surely beat him. . . . Just let that bird come and I'll knock him back fast enough. Hitting? Say, I know he can hit. . . . Any clodhopper is likely to beat you. ... I may win in a round." Firpo: "My plan-my big plan-is to attack Wills' body. I do not think the man lives who can stand my blows to heart, ribs and wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Words | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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