Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Quaker wing Dean Brown closing in on a rolling ball about ten yards away from the goal, Bagnoli charged, and seemingly grabbed the ball off Brown's foot. When Bagnoli sank to the ground after punting out of danger, Crimson hopes plummeted. It turned out that he was merely...
On the individual level, the game served to remind observers that Chet Boulris is one of the finest backs to have played in the Ivy League for some time, a fact often obscured by Harvard disappointments over the past few years. For the team as a whole, the victory left...
Out of the Barn. In Philadelphia, officials gathered to kick off Fire Prevention Week were interrupted in mid-ceremony when a mechanical replica of Mrs. O'Leary's celebrated lantern-kicking cow short-circuited, began to smolder.
Trick or Treat. Near Port Huron, Mich., intending to scare off Halloween pumpkin thieves, a farmer erected in his pumpkin patch a sign reading, "Beware! There is one poison pumpkin in this patch," returned to the field to find a new legend, "Now there are two."
Off & Running. In London, Accountant Francis George Swain, 46, got a two-year prison stretch for embezzling about $8,400 in animal-welfare funds from the Blue Cross-Our Dumb Friends League, got no leniency for having shot the wad betting on such dumb friends as greyhounds and race horses...