Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favor of Harvard, and only a few minutes to play, Dartmouth started a march into Harvard territory. A Dartmouth score seemed imminent when Percy Jenkins '24, breaking through on a passer, blocked the toss, and without slowing up caught the ball before it struck the ground and raced to a touchdown...
...pilot of Big Green elevens. In addition to being one of the most resourceful and level headed field generals in the East, he is an important cog in the execution of lateral and forward passes. Although he seldom carries the ball he has amply demonstrated in the past his ground gaining ability...
...permitted no Pittsburgh player to reach first base until one man had been retired in the eighth inning. Against such pitching no game can be won. Yet Pittsburgh errors again helped every New York run. In the first inning, when New York made two runs, Pitcher Meadows deflected a ground ball away from Second Baseman Rhyne, who then played tag with it while the batter reached first safely. Batter Gehrig hit a fly to left field which a fast left fielder might have reached but which Pittsburgh Outfielder Barnhart could not touch. In the eighth inning New York made...
...thing-"The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers." Their famed mechanical march and the tune that went with it has been played, imitated, repeated over most of the civilized world. The idea came from a tradition of the autocracy of Tsar Paul I. Absentminded, the Tsar walked off the parade ground one afternoon, forgetting to give the command to halt. Because he was so cruel, nobody dared remind him. The soldiers went marching on to somewhere in Siberia before he remembered and ordered them to return. They arrived with beards. The Parade based on this legend is the most widely known...
...rejuvenated Harvard offense got under way with the opening whistle. Vicious line plunges, alternating with occasional sweeps around end or off tackle, ate up the ground. J. P. Crosby '28 carried the ball on most of the plunges, and seldom failed to gain at least three yards. W. R. Harper '30, starting his first University game, was another power on the attack, as was G. C. Holbrook '30, who entered the game late...