Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spit ball. Went on Heydler: "The spitball . . . will never return ... an unsightly, insanitary form of delivery."
Sandlots. The club owners voted $65,000 for promotion work, $10,000 of it to go to Leslie Mann, onetime big league outfielder, as pay for coaching sandlot teams.
Except that the game had been scheduled and was obviously a drawing card, there was no reason why Southern California should be playing Carnegie Tech. In spite of the West Coast records, which are too complicated to indicate much, Southern California is rightly considered one of the best, if not...
For two periods, eleven Carnegie Technicians played as though every one of them rated the All American. They scored 13 first downs and 13 points. The Trojans, fidgeting in the line and scrambling over each other after the ball was snapped, were lucky to get two passes over to tie...
Nine plays later Southern California had a touchdown. "Racehorse Russell" Saunders, quarterback, had made it. On bucks, on spinning end runs, he made 60 of the 65 yards of that march. A few minutes later he scored again. This time it took seven plays and he alone made all but...