Word: half
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deacons will be depending on quarterback Hol French and four other veterans of last fall's crack team to keep their single-wing attack moving. Coach "Tank" Langdale isn't overly worried about his "new line," and his team is two deep in every position. Half of last year's championship first-stringers have returned for this season...
Funny thing about jayvee football--you spend, on the average, half your practice time each week learning and executing other teams' offensive and defensive tactics. One day you run, say, the Cornell offense against a punishing varsity line; the next day you're the Army defense trying to keep the varsity's offense in check...
Having given up the idea of "mass conversion," the Fabians aimed at limited objectives and "converting key people," Mrs. Cole continued. Half the British cabinet are now members of the Society...
...team, still badly shorthanded because of injuries, was putting up a game fight against a superb Cornell squad. But the grandstand quarterback didn't see it that way. First he started working over the coaches, as if he expected Art Valpey to rush off the bench and single-handedly half the Big Red tide. But when the Crimson made a good gain on a tricky play, the coach never got credit for devising the play and teaching the team how to execute...
There will also be a change in the halfback line. Pants Panteleoni will function at right half in place of the injured Vern Berger. The latter took a bad kick in the leg against Cornell Saturday and will be out a few days...