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Word: forfeits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this is unfortunately overshadowed by a continuous din of catcalls directed at the officials and rival players. This petulant display of sportsmanship reached a high point in last season's Columbia game. The referee had to warn the locals that unless the Bronx cheers stopped Columbia would win by forfeit. It's a good thing the Dartmouth boys only show up for football games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETWEEN THE LINES | 1/19/1952 | See Source »

Varsity wrestlers handed Tufts a five-point gift on a forfeit, allowed the Jumbos to pile up an impressive early lead, and then scored four straight pins to win, 23 to 11, last night at the Blockhouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Overcome Tufts, 23-11, For Fourth Straight | 1/17/1952 | See Source »

Eddle Bursk at 123 dropped a tough 3 to 1 decision, and the Crimson gave Tufts five points on a forfeit when illness prevented 120-pound Bud Adams from appearing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Overcome Tufts, 23-11, For Fourth Straight | 1/17/1952 | See Source »

...funnyman moderator (Robert Q. Lewis), and a succession of contestants, in this case individuals whose names are the same as those of living & dead celebrities (among last week's mystery contestants: Jane Russell, a Long Island saleswoman). Each panelist is allowed ten questions, pays a $25 forfeit for failing to guess the right name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Search for the Gimmick | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...Prompting two former chairmen of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Maryland's Herbert O'Conor, to put up a "friendly forfeit": a coonskin cap v. a barrel of oysters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bowlers | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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