Word: pits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anguished wails from Crimson coach Bill McCurdy led everyone to believe that last night's meet with Holy Cross in the Snake Pit was going to be the end of the varsity's undefeated string. It almost was, but a tremendous rally by the Crimson as the last dim spark of hope was about to be extinguished produced a thoroughly stirring 82-27 victory...
...iron-man performance by Mark Mullin led the varaity track team to a 57 1/2-51 1/2 triumph over Army Saturday afternoon in the Snake Pit. It took a victory in the meet's final event, the two-mile relay, to give the Crimson its first really big indoor success in more than two years...
After five weeks of violence and turmoil, most Belgians returned to work last week. In industrial Tournai, railroad workers gathered for one last rousing community sing of the Internationale and then docilely went back to their jobs. In the grimy Borinage mining district, the big wheels at the pit heads resumed hauling elevators to and from the pits...
...followed every move of a band of fierce-eyed battlers that literally would rather fight than eat or mate. Handlers first strapped razor-sharp spurs to the feet of their birds, then placed them on their marks on the clay-floored ring. At the referee's cry of "Pit!", the cocks were released to clash feet-first in mid-air in frantic flurries of squawks and feathers...
Good Reason. If no bird was the clear winner at the end of some 20 minutes, the pair was taken back to a "drag pit" behind the main arena and set to scrapping again. In one fight a cock belonging to Kentucky's Best and Kelly stable refused to quit, although it was repeatedly "shot gunned" (slashed in the head by both its opponent's spurs). At one point, the handler of the losing bird put half of its bloody head in his mouth to warm its damaged brain, blew on its body to keep a wound from...