Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Post-game gossip about lack of variety at the crucial moments when the Crimson stood before Penn's goal-line can be discounted . . . The Varsity ran eight running plays, tossed four passes, and worked a double shift inside the Penn 20 . . . Ironically, the team stalled on the two and the three but scored from the 27-yard line . . . George Boston, the Freshman who caught Comeford's six-pointer, made his Varsity debut with his thumb in a cast . . . It will take the movies to reveal how he managed to hold the ball with two defenders on his back...
...first two periods the Crimson booters kept the ball within striking distance of the Tufts goal, but all scoring attempts were thwarted by a tight Jumbo goal defense that seemed all but impregnable. On at least half a dozen different attacks, the Crimson forward wall carried the ball to the mouth of the Tufts goal only to be stopped by a desperate set of blue defenders...
College rivalries, long hidden under a now-common school and a mutual goal, will blossom forth again tomorrow night in the Union. Naval Training officers dining there will be seated according to their respective alma maters, the Scuttlebutt reports today...
...Varsity games and major and minor football letters will be the fruits of hard work behind the scenes for these who lead the field. The maintenance of Harvard's managing reputation, as chosen by life Magazine in the fall of 1939 to lead the country, will be the goal of these aspirants...
...rather be president of the Union Pacific than president of the United States." A hard man but fair, he got to the top by loyalty and frequent fights with those who opposed him and by having no interests except the Union Pacific ("The Railroad" to him). He reached the goal in 1937, succeeding the late great Carl Raymond Gray...