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Word: playe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goal is Loring Batchelder, a former Andover player, one of the best net minders in the Ivy League this year. He still has one more year to play...

Author: By Robert Cahswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

...play resumed, the Deacons took the ball on the kickoff and marched straight down the field for their second touchdown. Spinning and driving through monstrous holes in the Mastodon line, Winter, Thompson, and Jerry Glynn gained almost at will, Winters scoring easily on a first down from the four. Hollis French made the extra point on a fake kick on which he ran around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Tops Eliot by 14-7; League in Tie | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

Munro inherited eleven letter-winners from his predecessor, wee Scot James MacDonald, and has used, with a few modifications, the short pass, English style of play that MacDonald taught. But according to the small coterie of old-time Boston soccer enthusiasts who are the only regular rooters for the team, the Crimson has improved considerably over the past two years. Under Munro, it plays a more coordinated control game than last year, when it won seven and lost...

Author: By Robert Cahswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

Every afternoon at the Business School Field the players are constantly prodded with Munro's shouts of, "Control the ball. Look where you're passing. Keep it on the ground." Unfortunately a control game is not the typical American style of play, for most U. S. teams emphasize contact and long downfield boots...

Author: By Robert Cahswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

Before every game Munro's main worry is that his team won't "play its one game," but will drift into football tactics. "If we play soccer we can," he says, "we shouldn't have much trouble with most College teams...

Author: By Robert Cahswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

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