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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other extremity, was tall and fast. J. F. Brown '22 and J. S. Coleman '19 formed a pair of study guards. F. Russo at centre, though light, played steady game. The star of the backfield was quarterback A. J. Conlon, another featherweight, who was sterling pilot and ran back kicks in whirlwind fashion. B. A Hunneman '22, former Noble & Greenough player, gained ground consistently in line-plunging and showed-flashes of excellent kicking. Gehrke and R. Hoffman '19, also were dependable ground gainers, and the latter made up for his lack of weight b; needy dodging. P. Coburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL MAKES FINAL BOW | 12/6/1918 | See Source »

Lieutenant Vedder was born in San Francisco, California, 27 years ago. While at the University of California he was the varsity half-miller and in the Stanford-California track meet in 1915, he ran the half-mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lt. Vedder Formerly Half-Miler | 10/25/1918 | See Source »

...under a beautiful clear blue cloudless sky, through which the sun sailed merrily on, and through which, also, a flock of Boche airplanes soared and wheeled, directing the batteries on our poor tired devils, dropping bombs and spitting machine gun bullets. Then, about 4 in the afternoon we ran into a machine gun nest which wouldn't give in. One company tried to smash it, failed and fell back. We took up the job. We reduced its fire and charged and were thrown back, and then, while trying to reform the line, some great ton of steel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: START OF JULY ALLIED DRIVE DESCRIBED BY LETTERS FROM AMBULANCE CAPTAIN AND INFANTRY LIEUTENANT | 9/27/1918 | See Source »

...Keefe in the box for the University allowed eight scattered hits throughout the nine innings, holding the Freshmen to four runs, while his team-mates ran up a total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY NINE HUMBLED 1921 | 4/3/1918 | See Source »

...shooter's deflection. They have very ingenious ways of doing it. Yesterday afternoon we shot at the little captive balloons. It is very good fun indeed. You dive at the balloon and when the sights are in line shoot. One of the fellows didn't redress in time and ran into one of the balloons. It burst and spread out on his wires, making a great sail, which started to turn his machine and all the controls on the opposite side would barely hold the machine straight. He had to land with the wind and turned over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DESCRIBES AERIAL SHOOTING | 4/1/1918 | See Source »

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