Word: play
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempts have already been made to play the B.U. contest, the most recent on Tuesday when rain halted proceedings in the fifth inning with the varsity happily nurturing a 9-0 lead. But runs may not come quite so easily this afternoon, for coach Harry Cleverly has named Roger Pedjoe, one of the league's best pitchers, to start on the mound...
...easy to spot what is wrong with Puntila, but the satisfactions of the evening, except for certain beautiful erotic-comic passages, are harder to pin-point. The play is based on a group of Finnish stories, and it manages to achieve a vaguely Finnish atmosphere: bracing and sparse. The series of unpretentious, easily-changeable settings (designed by Robert Skinner and Lorna Kreuger) have a good deal to do with this; the backdrops for successive scenes are frankly mounted on a large picture frame, and the effect is never more Brechtian than when substantial sections look as if they were made...
...first period was no contest as U.N.H. jumped away to a 6-0 lead. Crimson defensive play was shoddy throughout the period, several times allowing New Hampshire attacks to take underguarded shots on the rim of the crease...
...second period, the Crimson began to play the kind of lacrosse it did on the spring trip and in the early stages of the season. The defense tightened up and cleared beautifully, while Manual Cabral and Jerry Pyle each scored one goal. At the half, the varsity trailed...
...suspicion is growing that this Crimson team is (or has become) quite a formidable outfit--much more so than its 3-4 record in Eastern League play would seem to indicate. Wins over Dartmouth, and over Yale on Saturday, would do much to confirm this suspicion...