Word: player
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However, each squad failed in its bid to advance to the Ivy final. Harvard fell to Brown, 15-12, when the Bruins converted a kick after a Harvard miss, and the Big Green defeated Radcliffe, 4-2, in a five-player kick...
Neither team managed to score through regulation or overtime, and in the five-player kick-off. Dartmouth managed to hit four kicks while the Black-and-White converted only two kicks...
...Jones never mentioned dispersion factors. He kissed his putter and called her Calamity Jane. "Sixty years ago," says Gene Sarazen, still slickered down and knickered up and still playing golf at 86, "I had a rotten grip. If you ask me, that's why there are so many excellent players today. A good grip is like a solid hinge on an oak door." Sarazen goes back to hickory sticks that required shellacking in the rain, and is amused by the '80s fashion, which encompasses titanium shafts, tungsten fibers, beryllium-copper, manganese-bronze and high-modulus graphite. "Of course," he says...
...late, the modern player has been wringing his overlapped hands over something called square grooves. Though the U.S. Golf Association has demonstrated scientifically that the benefit of these ruggedly faced irons is negligible, even those traditionalists on tour who are offended by the idea of backspin out of the rough have been changing cudgels in self-defense. "Golf clubs aren't only tools, they're totems," says Frank Hannigan of the U.S.G.A. "The game turns on illusions...
...only glaring problem with Score and Topps is that their fronts are incomplete. Score doesn't print the team name on the front, and Topps doesn't give the player's field position, the second year in a row they've made that mistake. Both bits of information should be there. Fleer and Donruss effectively put the team logo on the front with the player's name and position...