Word: midfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois, served without public notice for eight years (1940-48) until the Democrats, headed by new Governor Adlai Stevenson, moved into the capitol. In 1949 Harry Truman put Hugh Cross on the bipartisan Interstate Commerce Commission; four months ago, the rotating chairmanship finally reached him. Last week, out in midfield at 59, Hugh Cross was caught in the latest congressional investigation of a conflict-of-interest case...
...Still dazed from the beating they took from Michigan the week before, favored Army could not get the ball across midfield until the final two minutes of play and was blanketed 13-0 by Syracuse...
...Sneaking up on Ohio State's highly touted team, Stanford's Indians scored in 13 Plays after they first got their hands on the ball, held All-America Howard ("Hop-along") Cassady helpless in midfield and upset one of the country's best teams...
...score for the victors in the first half was Grey Hodnett's slanting header of a long pass from outside right Bill Lingelbach after one minute of the second quarter, but this was matched four minutes later when George Deemys tallied for Tufts. The varsity kept the ball beyond midfield in the first two quarters but this advantage was equalized by the daring play of Tufts goalie winton Briggs, who roamed far from the nets to intercept Crimson passes...
Although Dilworth is favored to win, Thach Longstreth feels that he has advanced the ball from the two-yard line up to somewhere near midfield. A good many others feel the same way. President Eisenhower, in a post-election White House meeting with Longstreth, said he needed no one to tell him what a fine candidate Longstreth would be-he could see for himself. Back in Philadelphia, Louis Sax was chortling: "If we don't beat Dilworth, we'll scare the hell...