Word: kickoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excellent Harvard football team and an average Harvard football squad begin the 1955 season this afternoon, the last major college eleven in the country to do so. Kickoff time for the opener against the University of Massachusetts is 2 p.m. at Soldiers Field...
...Sanders, was as sarcastic as a top sergeant with sore feet. Sportswriters had named his team the best in the country, and he was determined to cut his players down to fighting size. By gametime, they had got the idea; they were taut as they waited for the kickoff to open the 1955 season...
Tough Texas A. & M. linemen drummed across the white-striped turf of the Los Angeles Coliseum. Tailback Doug Bradley received the kickoff and was promptly knocked loose from the ball; the Bruins were back on their heels on their own twenty. Next time he got his hands on the ball, Bradley lost 13 yards. It was time for Sanders to make his move. In a fatherly way, he took Ronnie Knox by the arm. The handsome, long-legged junior buckled on his helmet and trotted in to take over at tailback...
According to Scholar-Poet Robert Graves, the Pelasgians, who inhabited Greece as early as 3500 B.C., thought up this version of genesis. Graves, who makes it the kickoff point of his grandiose two-volume The Greek Myths (Penguin; 95? a vol.), takes the Egg with a pinch of salt insofar as it pretends to historical accuracy. But he considers it a sound Egg in the mythical sense, in that it expresses the true and natural order of things. For like the Pelasgians and James Thurber, Poet Graves has no doubt that "woman [is] the dominant sex and man her frightened...
...Crimson three quarters moved up field immediately after the second half kickoff, Nat Cooke increasing the lead to six points with an opportunist drop kick from 25 yards...