Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final whistle blows, the crowds rise and break into waves to flow out of the stadium. The morning-paper reporters leave, and only the evening-paper men are left. There is still the "lead" of the play-by-play story to be written. Darkness falls rapidly, and lanterns make their appearance along the counter, by whose light the typewrites click, and the pencils push faster and faster, sending to frantic sporting editors trying to catch the third edition the information that...
...audiences part can be expected to appreciate the play, and applaud opportunely, while the rest will be good Romans. During the intermission there will be a feature act in mule-driving. This weeks drama promises to be one of the best early season wows, leading up to the final bow-wow. You will know the play in over when the whistle blows and the actors drop their work. Push, do not walk, to the nearest exit...
...from its top by the captain of the preceding year. Since I have been here. I have never seen a defeated team drawn up the hill. Now Navy Games are a thing of the past, for a time at least, and some other game must be chosen for the final chapter. I hope that I shall finish my course with my personal tradition unbroken; never to have seen an Army team drawn up the hill after a final defeat. And with all due respect to dear old Harvard. I hope there are no intermediate defeats...
...Army, faced with such sturdy Southern Methodists as Baccus, Roach and Watters, found it difficult to proceed, even by forced marches. Cagle, the West Point halfback, dodged through them several times. The final score was 14?13; the Methodists had missed one kick after touchdown...
Papers the next morning said "Argentine Beats U. S. in Second Polo Tilt Tying Series?Lacey Hero" or, after the third game, "U. S. Defeats Argentine in Final Game Clinching Championship of Americas?Harriman Star...