Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made judge in a Shanghai court. He was lenient to a fault. One day he freed a coolie accused of having stolen four ducks because evidence was insufficient-and the next day found four ducks missing from his own duck pond...
...Cambridge, 52,000 fans, sitting in an ice-caked horseshoe, had hot & cold chills as they watched Harvard and Yale fight it out in the traditional Big Game of the East. No title was at stake. Undefeated Cornell had already clinched the mythical Ivy League championship. Ducky Pond had admitted that this year's Yale team was the worst he ever coached. Harvard had been beaten by Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton...
According to the late reports from the Blue camp both of these problems have been satisfactorily solved. The solution of the first involves Bill Starbuck, success-story Sentor, whom Pond has selected to start in the first backfield as blocking back tomorrow. Up to two weeks ago, Starluck was a little-known understudy for Captain Bill Stack at center, and for this very reason his appearances in games had been few and brief...
...Ducky Pond Arrives...
...Ducky Pond arrived, and Yale was the victor, 13 to 0, Ducky sloshing through some 65 yards of Stadium slime with a Harvard fumble in his arms for the first Eli touchdown in the Stadium since 1907. Another seabattle ensued the next year, with the New Haven navy demonstrating its proficiency by a 19 to 6 score. Apparently whenever Harvard and Yale battles must end deadlocked, the result is scoreless, and 1925 was no exception, the Harvard's playing hosts to Yale within their ten yard line for most of the afternoon, but preventing the Blues from scoring...