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Word: game (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first two games resulted in one-sided victories over Springfield and North Carolina by scores of 30 to 0 and 20 to 0. The Crimson eleven displayed a wealth of power in these encounters but as usual in the early season lacked polish and finesse. A noticeable weakness, which was to prove a nemesis all season, early began to crop out. This was a failure to use or cope with an aerial game successfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Year Has Been the Most Active in History of University | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

...cigaret. At 50 to 150 feet, aiming at 2-in. blocks bobbing in water, he has scored eight hits to seven by a crack rifle shot. With both bait-and fly-casting tackle he has caught muskrats, beavers, porcupines, coons, gophers, gulls, woodpeckers, quail, loons, bitterns, mud-hens. Because game-fish judge bait principally by sight rather than smell, he has cast an onion and caught a fish. He has caught bass with carrots, parsnips, beets, frankfurters, potatoes, corn-on-cob, string beans, cherries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fly Caster | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...thunder banged. The cowboys whooped. The horses, led by a black mustang stallion, galloped. Gumbo mud spattered. Arrived at the camp the horses, thoroughly out of control, splashed through the shallow water-pool, soon left wet and weary horse catchers far behind. "It's a part of the game," said Catcher Skelton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Round-Up, Ground Up | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard baseball horde journeys to Medford today in an attempt to win from the Tufts forces its third straight game of the series. Tufts has had an edge on the Crimson cohorts for the past ten years, having dropped only three tilts since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIAMOND COHORTS LEAVE BAILIWICK FOR TUFTS MELEE | 6/15/1929 | See Source »

...stemming the local bats. Adams, of Tufts, is also a sophomore, and stands in the front line of Eastern college pitchers. He has been the mainstay of the team's twirling staff all year, and has turned in several creditable performances, the most notable being a two-hit game against Northeastern early in the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIAMOND COHORTS LEAVE BAILIWICK FOR TUFTS MELEE | 6/15/1929 | See Source »

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