Word: goale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irishmen have always liked to carry clubs, liked to use them in a fight. Their national game, hurling, gives them a chance to do both. The object of hurling is to belabor a lively little leather-covered ball down a 140-yard field into a goal. Each goal has a cross bar eight feet high; when the ball goes under the cross bar, it counts 3 points; over it counts 1. The implements, heavy shillalahs with a blade at one end, are "hurleys." Their resemblance to shinny sticks has caused hurling to be thought of as a form of field...
...village might take part in a game. A few rules and regulations were introduced when the Gaelic Athletic Association was formed in 1884, but not so many as to infringe upon its original character. Sides are now limited to 15 (six forwards, six backs, 2 centre fielders, a goal guard); no substitutions are permitted except when a player is severely injured...
...swarm of hurlers struggling to get at it with their hurleys. Boss Curry, who used to be a sprinter, scampered to the sidelines uninjured. Martin Kennedy, called "the man in the hat" because he always wears one, and considered the finest full forward in the world, made three goals for Tipperary. Tom Treacy, famed for a game he played in Dublin with a bloody bandage wrapped around his head, made another, with a shot from midfield that streaked directly into the New York goal. Most spectacular player on either team was Tom O'Meara of Toomevara, Tipperary...
...best players in the U. S. were split up between the four U. S. teams in the Open, but the Hurricanes had at least one of them-tall, noisy Winston Guest at No. 2, and England's only 10-goal player, Capt. Charles Thomas Irvine Roark, at No. 3. No. 1 man and captain was Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford; back, selected after two others had been tried, was Terence Preece, who learned the game at Westbury where his father deals in polo ponies and hunters. Santa Paula had been badly handicapped early in the tournament when chunky Manuel Andrada, captain...
While in college Dr. Richards was football manager and it was at that time that he discovered certain phenomena of the wind currents in the Stadium. He found that there is a wind vortex close to the goal posts at either end and the knowledge of this has aided dropkickers in gaining greater accuracy, even against adverse winds...