Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lenglen has been playing tennis, always victoriously. Loungers in the sunshine of the Riviera smiled with tolerant skepticism at these glorious triumphs of the leaping Frenchwoman, for they observed that the women she defeated had seldom been heard of before and were rarely heard of again. They, therefore, looked forward with some eagerness to the finals of the annual Nice tourney in which, they saw, Mlle. Lenglen would doubtless be opposed by Miss Elizabeth Ryan, famed California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick of long-legged Lenglen...
...number of men may play on a side. Running with the ball will be allowed only backward and from side to side. More than two steps forward will cost the possession of the ball. The oval may, however, be passed in any direction, forward, sideways, or back Personal contact will be barred...
William Thompson Smith '26 of East Ely, Nev., was elected captain of the University basketball team for next year when the letter-men met at Notman's Studio yesterday. Smith has been a regular forward for two seasons, and was the high scorer on this year's team...
...unscrupulous dealings. Yet even today new giants are waging financial wars, or at least sparring for position in a great game of railroad chess. By the present deal, which was actually consummated months ago, the Rock Island Road gains a position of vantage in the Southwest carrying trade. Looking forward both to further competition, and to a day when the Southern Pacific will seek a road to the East, the Rock Island realizes that the "Black Belt" will be both an important factor in consolidating its freight system and a valuable power in any trade with the Pacific road...
...Crimson line-up tomorrow night against the Blue in the final game of the season, is likely to be changed. McElroy's height will again give him the starting call at the tap-off job with Leekley starting at left forward. Captain Luman, at center for the Eli quintet, is the second highest scorer on the Yale team to date, and the Crimson substitutions will depend in large part on his playing. Leekley may be shifted to jump against him with Jones used at forward, or Rauh may get the assignment...