Word: raine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although most of the men on Mikkola's varsity bettered last fall's times in the recent University Handicaps, assistant coach Doug Pirnie explains that the 1948 race was run in rain and the times were exceptionally low. Tufts, harriers, on the other hand, are pretty much the same men that outsped the Crimson, 27-54 last October in a three-cornered meet that included Holy Cross...
Coaxial cable will carry today's game further than any previous series, but the threat of rain may cloud up reception...
Last week, Bud and his boys flew to Boston for their first game since they won the Sugar Bowl championship from North Carolina on New Year's Day. The only thing that stopped them was rain, and that for only 24 hours. Next night, against a supposedly strong Boston College team, Halfback George Thomas ran the opening kick-off back for 95 yards and a touchdown. By game's end, Oklahoma's split-T formation had rolled up 358 yards on the ground and another 48 by passing. Final score: Oklahoma 46, Boston College...
Brooklyn, which as a rule has trouble finishing a game in less than three hours, was faced with the bizarre problem of starting a second game at 3:42 and trying to sneak in five innings before rain and darkness reduced the playing field to a London for scene. Had the Flock lost, it would have been the first time a game was lost by three minutes. Apparently it really started pouring immediately after the fifth inning, for a seeing eye dog from plate umpire Al Barlick reported to the press box with the intelligence that the game was hereby...
...rained steadily and sometimes heavily on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, turning the field into a spongy mudflat and the visitors' stand into a puddle collector, but the varsity football team practiced outside until 5:30 p.m. before they moved into Briggs Cage. After the practice concluded, Coach Valpey said that the rain had not prevented him from doing all the work he had planned...