Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is some compensation for having one's nose ground into the sod two hours every afternoon for two months if that operation makes a place for one in collegiate football history. A pommelled ear aches the less when it hears the tribute of a cheer, and the pain of a twisted knee is forgotten if that knee helped to push the ball over the enemy's goal line. But what of the second team the black jersies, for whom there is endless drubbing and few cheers, plenty of pains and only a thin official notice...
...those days it was thought cheapest and most convenient to have teams meet on a common, unchanging battle ground at Springfield. The modern generation likes to be told of the glory of the old series: the tedious stage coach trip to Springfield, the meagre stands, the disorganized cheering, the "flying wedge", "guards back", the moustached heroes Trafford, Waters, Lake, Morrison, Heffelfinger (that very archfiend of Harvard's followers), and above all the unbelievable goryness of those grim struggles...
...lack of backfield power which prevented it from making a touchdown against the Tiger just as it had failed to make a touchdown against Dartmouth. The Crimson line had a superlative lift and the Tigers were forced to the uttermost to hold their ground at all. The game proved that at last Fisher had transformed the latent power of his heavy forwards into actual strength, usable when the occasion demanded; yet the game also showed that Harvard still lacked a running attack of real ground-gaining ability...
...single member of the Reserve Board, Mr. Edmund Platt, dissented from the resolution on the ground that it amounted to forcing state banks to conform to national banking laws...
...assist in the carnival events, the great Army dirigible, TC-2, had flown from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., to Mitchel Field. A crew of 200 men seized the ropes to haul the airship to earth. But the using of 500 gallons of gas on the trip, and the higher temperature encountered on the Long Island field, gave the ship abnormal buoyancy and she rose unexpectedly from the ground. The enlisted men, when dragged a few feet from the ground, let go-as they are carefully trained to do. In his excitement, Private Aage Rasmussen, of the 62nd Aero Squadron...