Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second game of the inter-class series yesterday afternoon, the Sophomores ploughed their way through an improved Senior aggregation for a 6 to 0 victory. The Sophomore eleven showed considerable ground gaining ability on straight rushes, but its attack faltered several times within the shadow of the 1927 goal posts...
...Dundee, N. Y., at the county fair, one Otis Dowland, in tights, flexed his biceps, patted his stomach, pouted his chest, lay on the ground. A plank was laid across his abdomen, an automobile driven towards him with the righthand wheels on the plank. Otis Dowland empurpled his face with straining, scowled up at the crowd, as the automobile ascended its human bump. The car's driver, a stupid bumpkin, stalled the engine in mid-plank. Strongman Dowland grimaced, retched, shrieked. The car was pushed away. Strongman was whisked to a hospital, where doctors pronounced his vitals...
...times the Harvard first-year aggregation displayed a smooth, powerful attack, efficient in gaining ground alike by running plays and by the forward pass, but woefully lacking in a scoring punch. The play was in Exeter's territory most of the time, but half a dozen excellent scoring chances were tossed away; Devens missed three field goals by narrow margins, and one attempt by Wetmore was blocked...
...page after page the reader is held fast to the ground by a million gossamer strands of unimportant detail. Chafe though he may for the moment when he may take off and soar among the clouds, that moment never arrives...
...University Soccer team will play at Amherst this afternoon in its first encounter of the season on alien ground while the Seconds meet Bridgewater Normal School on Soldiers Field at 1.30 o'clock. Captain Vogel will take his Freshman team on its first trip of the season, to Andover...