Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor: "Coach Schmidt of Ohio spent last Friday duck hunting. Let's hope he has good shooting the day before the Scarlet play Chicago...
Jack Calhoun was elected captain of the Yardlings at a meeting before the game, and then proceeded to play an outstanding game in the forward line. Bill Mayger, veteran player from Exeter, also starred...
Whether their interpretation is accurate or not, no one can really tell, but anyone who has seen the play can readily tell that they have brought a vivid personality to life. Mystic, tragic, almost pathetic, their Lincoln is haunted by a trauma of youth, heckled by a shrewish wife, driven into the White House almost against his will, yet ostensibly he is just a backwoods politician with canny horse-sense and a flair for fence-sitting. None of the rampant idealism usually attributed to Lincoln colors the Sherwood-Massey characterization, and for that reason the play might be considered derogatory...
...Hutchinson just the chance he is looking for, Coach Blaik has no real blitzkrieg for Stadium spectators tomorrow. He has no single back on whom he can depend to provide the lightning thrust; no one on whom the Green can afford to stake a long afternoon of build-up plays on the chance that he may break loose on THE play and win the game...
...service, Blaik has but three good halfbacks to shoot into the fray--Hutchinson, Hayden, and Arico. In addition, if Krieger is drafted into backfield duty, the flank squad is left very thin. Whit Miller is the only veteran, and he may not be good for 60 minutes of play. Nissen and Kelley are the other wing operatives...