Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farms" an acre or two of land at Oyster Bay, Long Island. There was no shortage of spectators. More of them, including scores of casual passersby, turned up than ever before, and one interested visitor confessed that "this is my third country fair at TIME and I look forward to it every year...
Tackle Hank Briggs has been named game captain of the team. He will be aided in the Lion forward wall by an all-veteran crew consisting of Gene Shekitka at center, Chuck Klemovich, who does the placekicking, and Joe Karas at guard, Clyde Hampton at the other tackle, and Adam Rakowski and Bill Lockwood on the ends. All are two year lettermen except Lockwood, who deserted the basketball court to try and fill the shoes of the departed Bill Swiacki this season. Klemovich was the outstanding lineman in the Rutgers fray by virtue of his savage tackling and three conversions...
...magic of Football is in the air again this autumn, and although a miserable few scorn it, none deny that it exists. When the gates of Soldiers Field swing open this afternoon, and the crowd of Crimson partisans sweeps forward eagerly, all true Harvard pulses will begin to thump, and loyal throats will tighten. There will be alert and anxious clusters around television sets in local bars, and here and there, in isolated rooms, the grinds will tune in softly to catch the half-time score. This gentle madness will endure until the heavy snows have covered the last eleat...
...that was the year Yale won the famous 3-0 upset. Harvard's Barry Wood took the opening kickoff and slipped it backwards to Jack Crickard, who slipped it forward for ninety-five yards. Yale was about to be immolated according to prescription. But Harvard never scored, and Albie Booth's fourth-quarter fieldgoal was a one-stroke decline and fall of the Horween empire. During the next three years Harvard ruined Bates and New Hampshire regularly. Period...
...beating Rutgers 27-6 last week, Lon Little's Lions chewed some pretty big holes in the Scarlet forward wall, particularly at the left tackle position. It was through there that their running game went for most of its yardage...