Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...12ers from Eliot and Kirkland beat Dudley and Adams respectively in House football tilts yesterday afternoon. The Sailing Elephants gave Dudley several men to fill their depleted ranks, and then proceeded to gain a 13-0 win. The Deacons from Kirkland had more trouble but tallied at the end of the third period, winning...
...line with the fullback and tailback, instead of being right up on the end's heels. The advantage in shifting him back is that on reverses from the single wing he has to run away from the line of scrimmage to get the ball before cutting upfield to gain yardage, whereas now he avoids this backward motion...
...Allies must take most of German-held Italy. Last week the Germans said that strong troop concentrations had moved on to the Yugoslav coast of the Adriatic. These reports had a ring of truth. On that coast, at its few practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate to their inner fortress-and fight to bar the British and Americans from a junction with the Russians...
...these factors as carefully as the Germans did. If they would, the Turks could now give the Allies a flanking position in the east to match the western position in Italy. If they would, the Turks could rob the Germans of all the time that they now hope to gain by resistance in northern Italy and Yugoslavia. For, with a free entry through Turkey, the Allies could establish a front in Bulgaria, attack the Rumanian hinge of the inner fortress, deprive the Germans of Ploesti's oil, threaten their armies in southern Russia from the rear...
...short of time if not talent, would have a hard time putting together the kind of precision machine that football fans had been accustomed to watching. Especially to new coaches, who saw a chance to make a quick reputation, the possibilities of a wide-open game, full of long-gain gambles, looked inviting. It might be quite a season for the customers...