Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks likes another victory for Lowell, in spite of the Clippers' upset win over the Dudley Ramblers last week. The Bellboys should pull off an attack that the Saltonstallers will be unable to stop, but the Dormitory team has been improving steadily, and may make a real battle...
...whose acid comments about the state of Harvard football during the era of Gladchuck and O'Rourke, were not meant for publication in the Alumni Bulletin. Following the Dartmouth victory Egan started his flip-flop, and after the Navy deadlock he reached down into his asbestos-lined dictionary to pull out words and phrases not used since B.C.'s adventures with Georgetown and Tennessee last year...
...Texas, Harlow and Snavely got together over the wire the other evening and drew out an agreement--a gentleman's agreement. It had to do with the new substitution rule and each one agreed that he would not take advantage of the new "free-sub" decision to pull off one of the old sleeper plays...
Some competent geologists admit the plausibility of the continental drift theory, which holds that all the continents were once a single big land mass, "Angaea," surrounded by water. Angaea was presumably broken up and dispersed by 1) the centrifugal force of the planet's spinning, 2) the gravitational pull of sun and moon. The breakup is supposed to have tilted the earth's axis to its present screwy angle...
This concentration on running plays, this lack of variation in the Crimson attack, made it possible for the Penn backs to move in closer to the line, even to pull one or two men, who ordinarily back up the line, actually into the forward wall itself...