Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the true story will never be printed, last year's Crimson team was sick, mentally as well as physically. This fall, morale is high. During last Saturday's game scrimmage in the Stadium, for instance, the squad continued to slug it out despite a freak baby hurricane which roared onto the field with a burst of thunder, lightning, and rain and threatened to collapse the concrete colonnades...
...Devens errors on the first two balls slammed by Crimson batters set the stage for hits by Conlson, Mannino, Lunder, and Coppinger, with a walk to Huntington sandwiched in between. It was good for five runs. Single runs in the third (on Coppinger's single, Gannon's freak hit over second, and Crosby's energetic fly to right) and fourth, when Huntington doubled and Coppinger squeeze-bunted expertly to bring in Mannine, accounted for two more...
...farmer, brings to his part the sublety and delicate shading of real understanding which he previously demonstrated in Open City, and the rest of the cast are equally appealing. The handling of Joe, the Negro soldier, is particularly interesting: the natives frankly treat him as something of a freak and are quite unabashed in so stating. Yet beneath their curiosity, lies a genuine respect which permits Joe to attain individuality and equality seldom before accorded a Negro on the screen...
Dartmouth scored again in the last quarter on a freak 50 yard run by Bob Tyler. In the final minutes the Crimson drove to the Green 15, but one of many fumbles in the game killed the scoring opportunity...
...emphasis is on the pigskin and the Jayvees won their first game for 1947 on Saturday, Elijah the prophet had plenty to say about the future but Elijah Boston, in the tradition of a football coach does not. "We may win some, but last year was a freak," he says...