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Word: goalpost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while Harvard shots either hit the goalpost or were turned away by the UConn net-minder, Connecticut managed to shake loose its star centerforward EdSahnas to take a 1-0 lead at the end of the first quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Tie UConnecticut, 2-2; Pete Bogovich Scores Both Goals | 9/30/1968 | See Source »

...tour of the Old Confederacy. In Memphis, he drew 30,000 people to the grassy slopes of River Bluff, not far from the Mississippi. In Montgomery, a near-capacity crowd of 24,000 turned out at Cramton Bowl, including 700 white-gowned local belles who lined the field from goalpost to goalpost waving American flags. In New Orleans, the 82,000-seat Sugar Bowl was only one-third filled, but Barry still outdrew the Beatles, who had lured only 12,000 the night before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Marching Through Dixie | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...been quite a year. Freshman confusion notwithstanding, the University was a pretty lively place in those days--back when Tallulah Bankhead told the undergraduates that drama must never be censored, or when the Student Council made its official pronouncement, entered on record for posterity, against the gentle art of goalpost rioting...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr. and Max Byrd, S | Title: Class of 1938 Distinguishes Itself in Riots, Public Life | 6/10/1963 | See Source »

...look at it, Cornell's loaded. Even on kickoffs they'll stand out. Pete Gogolak, who kicks with his instep, hit the goalpost on the opening kickoff against Colgate, and on the next two he split the uprights. Only two out of his seven kickoffs last Saturday could be returned; the others went out of the end zone...

Author: By James R. Ullyot, | Title: Football Team Begins Ivy Competition | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...Student Council came out against goalpost rioting while the Faculty concerned itself with abolishing the elementary language requirement. This was the year when Tallulah Bankhead told the CRIMSON that drama must never be censored, and the spring when it was discovered that Harvard University was left without a single dean or executive above the rank of secretary to the President for one entire weekend...

Author: By Martin J. Brookhuyson, | Title: 'Outside World' Crises, Changes At College Trouble Class of 1936 | 6/12/1961 | See Source »

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