Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irwin Winkelried has won Grimsley's regular right halfback post. A hard, rugged plunger and a fine defensive player, the sophomore back is one of the most consistent performers in the Scarlet lineup and sports a 5.4 average in yards gained rushing...
...were flashy side whiskers, and after a few plays of the game with Harvard at the Polo Grounds, he turned to the referee and said, "Mr, referee, this man opposite me is pulling my whiskers." "Marcou probably was," chuckles old Varsity man Francis C. Woodman '88, who had a player opposite him that aimed his fingers at Woodman's eyes every time he had the ball. Any innovation might prove useful in the new game...
Like the injured captain of the Harvard team, no football player wanted to leave the game unless he was absolutely unable to keep going. There was scarcely a substitution made, a fact all the more astonishing when one remembers that each half was forty-five minutes long...
Harvard took over some of Camp's stuff, reducing the signals to the nickname of the player who would get the ball. Thus, if Woodman was to run, it would be "Jumbo," or if Butle, "Tubby...
...this afternoon the Varsity will find itself in the position of the baseball player, who, after, striking out three straight times, comes up in the ninth inning with the bases loaded knowing that if he comes through, all will be forgiven...