Word: feint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norris, also distressed by the failure of his frontal attack, attempted a feint. He wrote a personal letter to Heaton, urging him, in effect, to leave the Episcopal Church and become a Baptist...
...uncanny accuracy in the first period held the Crimson to a single tally, the result of a quick feint by Beals. Half way through the second session, however, he began to weaken, and there-after was not such a riddle to the University skaters. Several times he dropped flat and saved scores from scrimmages at his door-step. On three occasions Referee Sands ordered a face-off only three feet from the net, but each time the Tech goal-tend pulled out safely...
...them through natural inclination; he is his own compulsion. A man without a leaning towards any college activity would probably take his share of the newly prescribed college life much as a small boy takes his dose of castor oil. Perhaps, after all, this move at Middlebury is a feint, in strict accordance with the tactics of the Missouri mule "skinner", to drive the student back to his studies...
Score, Harvard '26 23, M. I. T. '26 3, Goals from floor, Jones 2, Nash 2, Combe 2, Smith, Feint, Timmerman, Goals after louis, Smith 9, Nash 3, Timmerman, Referee, George Hort, Time-keeper, S. H. Hooks. Time of halves, 20 minutes...