Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the game, the varsity continued to match play with Connecticut. It turned on a final spurt so hot that Connecticut never got the ball out of its own zone in the last three minutes of play. Yet the blue and White--whose first team listed ten seniors--was so good that the Connecticut goalie was seldom overworked...
...question is a genuine one; its solution is credible. But along the way, the credibility is gradually eased out, and the final dramatic moment does not ring true. The courtroom scene in which Pinky bests the representative of intolerance is a bit too close to a sudden triumph of righteousness for comfort. Pinky's meetings with the doctor are probably the most weakening factors in the plot; especially in the final encounter, the conflict between love and principle is just too much for the actors to carry...
...third period Michigan finally discovered a seeming Army weakness-at the guards-and began to roll, scoring one touchdown and threatening another. Then a thin, 155-lb. safety-man, Cadet Tom Brown, played taps for Michigan by intercepting a pass in the end zone in the last six minutes of play. Final score: Army 21, Michigan 7. When Army's team came home to the grey-walled Point, the Cadet corps put on a welcome so thunderous that it almost drowned out an eleven-gun howitzer salute...
Norval, assigned to set the pace for his stablemates, broke clear at once and led all the way to the final turn. By then, Djeddah had already faded but Coronation charged on to win by four lengths over Double Rose, paying 4-1 francs for 1. Said one dejected infielder as the numbers went up: "Encore une pour le trust [One more for the trust]." The sentimentalists did better: Love Goddess Hayworth's filly paid a handsome...
National is still a long way from a happy landing. But Baker hopes that by the time CAB gets around to final hearings on dissolving National, probably not until next year, National's comeback will have made the question academic...