Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarterback takes it, wheels, and flips it to a halfback. The halfback draws back his arm and shoots and oval on an airline to an end far down the field. A frantic dive by the safety man, and a touchdown is averted by a scant four yards. The teams line up there is a line plunge and another, and a touchdown. The stands are rocking with excitement. Every woman is gasping "Who was that?" and every man is fumbling at his program to discover who threw the pass, who caught it, and who made the two line bucks...
...Roosevelt shot a pass on a bullet-like trajectory to Smithers, wing-footed Maroon end. As Smithers, four yards from a touchdown, felt the pigskin against his chest, the lithe form of Codfish Cabot, the doughty little Massachusetts quarterback, hit him amidships, and down he went. Roosevelt crashed the line, but Tiny Timm, giant guard, blocked his way. Again Roosevelt drove, and this time over the line...
...these men of the working press that the mercies are multiplied. In the center of the press box, on the 50-yard line, sits an undergraduate from each of the contesting colleges. These students are provided with field glasses and an ability to recognize at sight all the members of their respective teams. When a play starts, they train their glasses on the scrimmage. The Siwash undergraduate says, "Shakespeare carrying the ball." As soon as the tackle is made, the Massachusetts undergraduate says, "Jones made the tackle...
...University soccer team will play an informal game with a graduates team at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. No changes have been announced in the line up of the first eleven, but Coach Jack Kershaw will probably try out several different combinations in this afternoon's encounter...
...Alumni team, which is drawn largely from the graduate schools and will have several players in its line up who have distinguished themselves as college players. C. H. Baker, a graduate of Haverford, an all American player will probably be on the forward line with L. H. Green, who was captain of last year's Amherst soccer eleven...