Word: flukes
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Amos Murphy, gigantic Sophomore, former Connecticut Interscholastic Champion, came through to prove his Freshman record last year was no fluke. Another Sophomore from whom great things are expected is Lyn Brua...
...made the Pitt attack powerful. contributed more than his share to the superb coordination of the "dream backfield." When he was on the sidelines with a leg injury four weeks ago Pitt lost its first game in two years (to Carnegie Tech). Last week it lost again-on a fluke to Duke. Although Duke won the game (7-to-0) on a lucky block of an end-zone punt and got only one first down to Pitt's nine, Wallace Wade's Blue Devils have been so much better than all their other opponents this year they have...
...coach, seeking the cause of the fluke, shifted the strokes and seven men in the two crews, demoting those of the second to the third. Still the third boat won. Two by two he exchanged third crew men for those in the second and when they had all been shifted the men of the original second crew were winning in the third crew's shell...
That neither of these feats was a fluke was later demonstrated. Two other 60-yard processions were staged, and the most outstanding break capitalization was on the last touchdown. Torh Macdonald intercepted a pass on the 47-yard stripe and before he had taken two steps a phalanx of Harvard blockers had formed. Those tacklers who weren't blocked out he easily eluded and crossed the goal standing...
...without issue, some cause aborting all their efforts north of the Delaware Capes though a primeval urge drives them still to run to Peconic in millions from their deep winter beds off Hatteras; that a flounder's eyes are on the right of his whale-smashed face, a fluke's on the left; that a hooked flounder will often jump like a trout; that muddying the bottom will bring flounders and flukes from fathoms around; that the bonefish grows up from its larval stage by growing more than 50% smaller until it assumes its adult shape...