Word: pigskins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coach Fisher yesterday sent team A through a brief scrimmage work-out with the second eleven followed by one of the longest signal drills yet held this fall. As darkness settled in the Stadium a new white leather ball, the so-called "ghost-ball", was substituted for the usual pigskin in order that the drill might continue in the twilight...
...Freshman is merely bored, the Sophomore is bored but striving for originality, the Junior is distinctly not bored, but suffering from a species of nightmare--the dark before the dawn. At last the Sleeper awakens and substituting the lambskin for the pigskin goes forth to see what...
...thing in New Haven, the intellectual health of the inmates is not altogether impaired. Than Mr. Heywood Broun, in his part of the World (New York) utters plaints about the present rush of youthful Eli poets to print, and mourns that all Harvard has is a rush of Crimson pigskin chasers to a certain end of a certain kind of a field under certain conditions...
...well deserved the 14-7 win which they carried away, but it was only by the narrowest margin that the Cadets' comeback fell short. In the last few minutes of the final period the Grey and Black team uncovered a dazzling series of forward passes and taking the pigskin in midfield carried it in six plays down the field and over the line. Uncovering a similar attack on the following kick-off, two plays brought the ball to Yale's 18 yard mark but the offense collapsed when the next attempt grounded harmlessly behind the goal posts. Captain Aldrich again...
...they were outweighed to a man, but what they lacked in weight, they made up in aggressiveness. Being forced back to their own seven-yard line and extended to the limit by their lighter opponents, the redjerseyed players barely nosed out a 3-0 victory when Buell sent the pigskin over the bars from the 37-yard line. By holing on their seven-yard line Coach Fisher's men proved that they were good defensively but the offense left much to be desired, for Worcester succeeded in carrying the ball 160 yards to the Crimson's 115 and gaining eight...