Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rarely, if ever, has one soccer game crammed so many dramatic elements into 88 minutes as the varsity's win over Brown last Saturday at Providence. Performances that would normally have drawn rave notices were eclipsed by efforts surpassing mere excellence...
...vivid demonstration of courage, making many saves and quarterbacking the defense despite a broken right hand. One day earlier, it was extremely doubtful that Bagnoli would even see action. In practice Friday, Bagnoli was determinedly trying to convince Bruce Munro that he was ready to start the Brown game...
...Knife (as the press had begun to call him) said his elbows were clean; too bad about Bates, but he just couldn't stop. U.S.C.'s Coach Don Clark backed up his man, said that McKeever had performed "no misconduct," had played a "clean but aggressive game." After all, the officials on the spot had not penalized U.S.C. on the questioned play...
...before. Last year the same elbows scythed into Cal Quarterback Joe Kapp, and that time U.S.C. drew a 15-yd. penalty that set up a Cal touchdown (Cal won 14-12 and went on to the Rose Bowl). This season Mike McKeever was thrown out of the U.S.C.-Stanford game for sinking an elbow into Stanford Center Doug Pursell. And after Bates had been sent off to the hospital in the U.S.C.-Cal game, Mike McKeever chopped away, twice elbowed Cal Quarterback Pete Olson, was finally thrown out of the game-but only after opening up a six-stitch...
...testified Koplin. Among them: the Area Fix, i.e., questions were pitched within the contestants' strong and specific areas of knowledge. (This was usually the case, declared Koplin, with Challenge's Teddy Nadler, who won $252,000.) There was also the Playback (questions had been asked in pre-game tests) and the Emergency (questions and answers were given the contestants, usually just before the show). "Emergencies" produced some Keystone Cops fiascos; often the fixer had to spring down to the celebrated bank vault, where the questions were held, quickly slip in the rigged question before air time...