Word: nine
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...find numerous holes, especially at end and tackle, in the Princeton defense. Tom Gannon whose 66-yard dash for the second Harvard touchdown was a dazzling sprint on a reverse from the T, enjoyed an especially good day, gaining 128 yards in 13 carries. Another Gannon effort, a nine-yard off-tackle slant in the fourth period, wound up in the Tiger end zone, but was called back by the officials, who claimed the Varsity had a back illegally in motion. Movies this week should support or quash that decision...
...Republic lots tried to stop busloads of I.A.T.S.E. workers and imported goons from crashing their lines. In one melee, Deputy Sheriff Dean Stafford, knocked down and kicked unconscious, was rescued by Deputy Gilbert Leslie, who kept pickets at bay with the threat of his drawn revolver. In one brawl nine deputies and seven strikers were hospitalized...
Leahy's football factory is meeting its production quotas, and then some-nine touchdowns in the first two games-but the Man in the Tower is the kind of guy who always aims to do better. At one end of the field, the tackle coach is instructing eleven tackles in the refinements of "forearm shivers." At the other end, twelve brutish guards are doing "duck walks." Nine T-formation quarterbacks, never far from the centers, are working on a half-dozen different types of pivot-the crossover, reverse, reverse-deep, hop-around, slice and crossfire...
...meeting served as a kickoff for an endowment drive. Goal: $2,160,000-more than Kenyon's present total endowment-for a new library, new athletic field house, increased faculty salaries (Kenyon has one faculty member for every nine students...
Fruits of Indigestion. Among its $20 million assets, W. & K. now owns hotels, apartments, a nightclub (Manhattan's glittering Monte Carlo), shipping piers, warehouses, a steamship company, shopping centers in Denver, Houston and Atlanta, a nine-mile railroad and a 2,300-acre oilfield in Louisiana (one well came in last fortnight from a depth of 10,000 ft.). To avoid pyramiding, each new permanent project has been financed independently...