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...wings up to the opposing goal at full speed while the center came down the middle and took a long shot which they were supposed to net before the goalie could clear. This has been the attacking plan of the professionals. In the McGill game, however, the Canadians poke-checking often caught the puck at mid-ice, leaving the two Harvard defense men at the mercy of the entire Maple Leaf forward line. In this situation, the second team should theoretically always score and where this continually occurs the primarily defensive team usually wins. Harvard was not long to learn...
...return on the sleeper. Although the two Universities have played with only one break every year since 1900 a tie tonight would be only the third in the 32 years of competition.TOP--Jack Winter, stalwart Yale defenseman who halted many Harvard rushes. ABOVE--W. H. Crosby '32 whose reliable poke-checking, In last Saturday's game, broke up many Blue offensives. RIGHT--Captain C. C. Cunningham '32, star forward and body-checker...
...customer. Leader of an insurgent group of cabdrivers who resent the methods of a racketeering corporation, Cagney has ample chance to perform his specialty?a short right-hand punch to the side of the jaw. He threatens his girl (Loretta Young) almost every time he sees her, takes a poke at the clerk from whom they get a marriage license. Right after the marriage, Cagney sets out to avenge a murder committed by the head racketeer of the taxi corporation. Despite his wife's protests, he chases the murderer into a closet and is prepared to shoot him through...
Last fortnight Governor Roosevelt sought to bring his national issue into sharper focus by taking an early poke at President Hoover. Though he failed to draw the President out into a pre-campaign controversy on water power, he did succeed in winning a small tactical advantage in New York State, thanks to White House bungling of the correspondence...
...Elis passed with accuracy and directness and completely baffled the Harvard defence with their speed and feigning tactics. Harvard, on the other hand, could do nothing better than take weak, long shots at the net which Farrell had little trouble deflecting. In back-checking and poke-checking and in covering their positions--in fact, In practically every department of the game--the Eli were far superior to their dazed Cantabrigian opponents...