Word: last
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, after three games with the Bruins, Owner-Player Shore realized that his dual role was too much to handle, asked to be spared from the Boston lineup. The Bruins consented...
...years ago promoters of professional football were unable to fill a good-sized stadium, even with Annie Oakleys. Last Sunday 62,000 football fans jampacked Manhattan's Polo Grounds for a championship* game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. The crowd was small compared to the 102,000 who watched the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia the day before. But more than 50,000 applications for tickets had been turned down, and speculators had little difficulty in getting $25 a seat from fans eager to see what they considered the best football game of the year...
Each team had won eight games, lost one and held one another to a 0-to-0 tie in their only previous meeting this season. The Giants, best defensive team in the league, had been beaten only once in its last 23 games. Yet they were the underdogs, for the Redskins were an awesome tribe. Led by slick Sam Baugh and Frank Filchock (who between them had completed 94 out of 160 passes) and Anvil Andy Farkas (whose ferocious running had scored eleven touchdowns), they had chalked up 235 points this season-101 in their last three games...
Devotees of pro football are always sure of a good show. Last week's clash between two beautifully coordinated machines was not only a sellout but a hit. For three periods the savage-tackling, pass-intercepting Giants stole the Redskins' tomahawk, crippled their attack and also their attackers, notably ferocious Andy Farkas. Not content with defending their goal line, the Giants brandished their own favorite weapon: in each of the first three periods they scored a field goal, two by Ward Cuff, one by Ken Strong...
Nowadays cheerleading is as much a part of the football show as passing and kicking. Last week, while the cream of the 1939 crop of U. S. footballers wondered whether they would be picked for one of the hundreds of All-America teams (chosen by sportswriters, Greek restaurants, department stores, cinema producers), the cream of college cheerleaders had the same worry: whether they would be picked for this year's All-America cheering squad, to be announced Christmas week...