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...flash, a moment of gameness was all that Princetonians asked of a team which since the beginning of the season had not beaten anybody except one minor opponent. Instead, scored on by a fluke field goal in the first two minutes, Princeton somehow became for i hr., 19 min. one of the great teams of the U. S. The heroes were the linesmen, led by Mexican-born Capt. Ricardo Mestres, who broke through to drop the great Yale backs, and Quarterback Trix Bennett who played without a rest, who scored the touchdown that put Princeton ahead at the half...
When Quarterback Downs of Georgia ran back Yale's kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown, the Yale stands groaned. Could their team lose on a fluke? But there was no fluke about the Georgia march in the last period, or the passes that sailed straight into the arms of white-shirted Catfish Smith, the slippery end who beat Yale last year. Yale was the lucky side, profiting by the rarest accident in football?an airline recovery of a fumble which Barnes carried over after the ball bounced to him out of Kelly's arm* This was the lead that Georgia...
Though out last week, Mr. Cosgrave was not down. The two-vote majority against him was a mere fluke. The leader of the Opposition was not even in Ireland, had nothing to do with the Government's defeat, was in fact in Chicago. Chances were good that before he could return Mr. Cosgrave would again be "President."' Chicago reporters found the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Eamon de Valera, throwing things into suitcases. He has never ceased to call himself "President of the Irish Republic" but might as well claim to be the "Man in the Moon." Said...
Strangely enough the last three queens of England have all known comparative poverty in girlhood. Everyone remembers that Alexandra was the daughter of a petty prince who by a fluke became King of Denmark, and that she used to scrimp and help her sister make dresses before the latter became the Tsarina Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias and Alexandra herself Britain's Queen Empress. But everyone does not remember a far more important fact: that in the same bedroom at Kensington Palace which Victoria the Great used as a girl was born Mary the Good, daughter of her first...
...dropkick was a fluke, but I watched Booth thereafter for signs of a let-down. He did not wilt a bit. He was lame, and probably disappointed some of the crowd, but to me he is still a marvel."--Jackson Cannell, Dartmouth head coach...