Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infernally cold in Chicago last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates on the frozen ground, the teams took to the field wearing basketball shoes. In the stands 14,000 Chicagoans shivered. Some 1,200 Washingtonians were there too, because in the single season they have had a major-league professional team, Washingtonians have gone crazy about the game...
...trouble is that we don't have enough ice; thousands of kids want to play hockey--look at them now, on every pond. But when there's no ice, they don't get a break. Even the Garden isn't used exclusively for hockey...
Amherst, December 14: Trains and automobiles cut no ice with two rugged youths from the wilds of Amherst, who are setting out down the Connecticut in a canoe for a round trip to Orient Point, Long Island, next Friday...
...policeman, believing the ice unsafe for skaters, ordered...
Apparently Fesler has been atempting to toughen his first team in anticipation of long service in Ivy League encounters, by allowing them to participate long after the game is on ice. Herrick especially tires easily. Because the center reserves are inexperienced and not as yet ready for Varsity competition, it has been necessary to move Lowman over from his forward position. With height less emphasized for a center under the new ruling which gives the ball to the scored on team after a basket, the team will be at no great disadvantage with Lowman in the pivot post...