Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woodward, whoever he may be,† shows the usual faults of a tyro. Apparently he thinks no one has ever appreciated Washington until he came along. The fatal difficulty is that he thinks he has made new discoveries...
...based on the belief that this kind of thing is not good for the boys and not good for the game Mighty few college boys can stand such exploitation and publicity without getting bad cases of what commonly is known as a "swelled head." The discase is not fatal, but while it lasts it does its victims a deal of harm. Football is a spectacular game, anyhow, and the more formidable players are made the subjects of an extraordinary amount of hero worship and general publicity. Greatly to their credit be it said that many of these young men "come...
...supreme heights of power in overthrowing the Big Green. The Hanoverians said that the Harvard line played a far stronger game than the Blue forward wall, but the Eli backs were more successful in stopping the always dangerous Dartmouth passing attack. This weakness against an air attack has been fatal to Harvard all season; it was under cover of a barrage of passes that Holy Cross came from behind in the second half to lower the Crimson colors and later Brown showed the ease with which aerial thrusts might pierce the Cambridge armor...
...losing to Brown and Princeton, Yale was for more impressive than Harvard. The Elis held the mighty Bruins to one hard earned touchdown, while Coach Horween's men were sunk under 21 points. Against Princeton the Bulldogs flashed their real power and only a fatal failing to make use of opportunities prevented the Blue from flaunting proudly over the Orange and Black at the end of the game, while the Canta-bridgians never threatened the Tigers...
...older than she, looks upon her as a mother, wears heavy spectacles and a prodigious growth of mustache and hair, loves fire-engines and faced the accusation that he cut the throat of Mrs. Mills; Henry Stevens, another brother, tight-mouthed, an expert marksman, said to have fired the fatal shots. The curiosity existed also because of the ghastly disposition of the bodies, in the dismal field, under the spectre tree. Curiosity was awake because of the time that had elapsed since the murder-four years. Finally, curiosity was awake because the newspapers had been stampeded by a grimy little...