Word: jumboes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson NROTC rifle team traveled to Tufts yesterday to face the Jumbo Naval sharpshooters, dropping a close decision by a 827 to 910 count. The match, fired on the enemy range, was a shoulder-to-shoulder competition...
After four periods of the hardest football seen on Soldiers Field all year, the Mastodons had firmly convinced all observers of their superiority, as they scored a bloody 8 to 2 win over a rough and tough Deacon squad. Hard-running Austie Lyne, Jumbo right-half, climaxed a 58-yard march with the game-winning off-tackle plunge from the one-yard stripe into the second period...
Harvard took over some of Camp's stuff, reducing the signals to the nickname of the player who would get the ball. Thus, if Woodman was to run, it would be "Jumbo," or if Butle, "Tubby...
...broke however in the third canto when three different Jumbo backs crossed the double striped chalk line into the end zone. Austie Lyne opened the deluge, sweeping around end for six points and the first touchdown...
...Jumbos, who did not have preseason practice as did the Crimson, are primarily a one-man team built around a fast, shifty Liberian Negro named Morris who rates as one of the best ball-handlers and play-makers in the New England area. An unpaid player on several of the semipro elevens around Boston during the off seasons, Morris scored close to half of the Jumbo goals last year...