Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consecutive years, Michael Denihan, ground-keeper at Soldiers Field and general factotum for the University athletes, has not missed a first team football or baseball game. Ever since the days when Harvard men with moustaches and moleskins touched up their nags to get to practice on time, "Mike" has been on hand to keep the field in trim or to guard the gates against inquisitive strangers. He has watched the greatest of Harvard teams and the most mediocre as they charge past into the mist of years...
...Persian craftsmen, who made the rug out of silk threads, wove into it animals, riders, flowers. Horsemen move to and fro, pursuing lions, antelopes, ibexes, boars, hares, foxes, jackals and other beasts; many flowers, some western, some Persian, and some the flowers of no land, riot softly on the ground, or hang from delicate vines. The background is salmon-colored. Around the central field runs a quiet legend. In the middle all js speed: bugles blow there, stallions leap, and the beards of riding Khans shake out like flame along a wind of fruits and blossoms. But the border reposes...
...Blue line always on the defensive. In the first half the Georgia team played the Yale aggregation to a standstill; the line smothered any attempt of the Blue to gain on running attacks, and Yale was forced to resort to forward passes and an occasional end run to gain ground. Two long passes, Kline to Bunnell, gave Yale her only first half score. Noble failed to kick the goal; and the six point lead was too slim for the perfect peace of the Blue supporters...
Some sing, some dance, some lay the Ground upon...
...first half was all Harvard. Showing a determination and a spirited ground gaining ability seldom equalled in recent University gridiron history, the renovated eleven Coach Horween sent on the field completely outplayed its opponents and emerged at half time with a 14 point lead. Powerful line bucks by Miller alternated with shifty running by Putnam and French accounted for most of the advances. On the defense the University linemen led by a fast, fighting pivot in the person of Gamache were equally effective. Holy Cross succeeded in penetrating this alert, smashing defense for few gains and were never...