Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...berth, with Bosler now ruling favorite. Weak point in the outfit is 126-1b, division in which two Sophomores, Jim Sears and Louis Daily have been working together. Daily, a Freshman substitute has been able to keep the last year's 118-pounder on the ground, but Johnson expressed confidence that Sears will improve...
Everybody's grousing about their tickets. Even the deans, one of whom is placed fairly near the center of the steel stands only a few rows off the ground, would like to know who gets the "specials," that ambiguous term for fifty-yarders...
...fluctuations in its playing ability as to the type of attack they employ. Defensively, the eleven has maintained a high average but offensively they have appeared different in almost every game. The reason for this is that the offense is built largely on deception, and as far as the ground-gained statistics at least are concerned, its success has varied with the opponents gullibility to this deception...
...exhibition of how sour a tricky attack can look when it is not working was put on in the Dartmouth game. The Green line just wouldn't be trapped and was strong enough to work a cup defense, charging in a few feet and then holding their ground. It was just under those circumstances that the deceptive end and off-tackle runs should have worked, but the Dartmouth flanks were also apparently pretty smart fellows and so the Crimson attack looked impotent...
...warm. See what I mean?'') Characters, sharply delineated at first, develop inconsistencies. The plot at times becomes foggy. Most readers will end the book a little baffled-feeling as if they had been shown a brisk bit of action, but forced to view it through pink-tinted ground glass...