Word: linesmen
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...Harvard line, weakened by the injuries that kept three regulars on the sidelines until late in the game, was unable to break the Brown barrier, and plunge after plunge of the Crimson backs piled up on a heap of Crimson linesmen, spilled by the opposing defense...
After a few minutes it became merely a question of how many points the Army would make. Once McGunigle, Yale back, got near enough to try a long shot for a field goal; it went astray, and for the rest of the game desperate Yale plungers bounced off Army linesmen, sombre-caped cadets sang "Army's Day," and an Army team, emphatically a unit, swept over Yale's goal line to pile up a score...
Score--Princeton 4, Harvard 0. Goals by Packard 2, Stewart 2. Officials--Referee, Dyer. Linesmen, Haskell, Harvard, and Hardt, Princeton. Time--22 minute quarters...
...surprises, the biggest was found in the package that Brown sent to New Haven. It contained, among other things, a live Brown bear for a mascot, and some enormous linesmen who spent a jolly afternoon ramming their muzzles into Yale's honeycomb. A Brown touchdown in the first period was the only score of the game...
...very hot; only a mad woman would imbibe iced liquors at such a time?a mad woman, or a French woman. Onetime King Manuel of Portugal, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ex-King George of Greece, the Rajah of Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass was empty. Suzanne Lenglen picked up her racquet, and faced once more the girl in the cotton dress the other side...