Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Games- In Los Angeles, Southern California's Fullback Dick Berryman ran 65 yards for one touchdown and a moment later Bud Langley, a substitute halfback, intercepted a pass on his own goal line and went the length of the field for the other that balanced-the rewards of Notre Dame's two long marches, 13-to-13. At Tyler, Tex., Manhattan's rally in the last quarter failed to match Texas Aggies' two touchdowns in the third, 13-to-6. At Memphis, Tennessee and Mississippi came...
...major colleges-were members of teams representing obscure institutions. Ablest ballcarrier in the National League this season has been "Tuffy" Leemans of the New York Giants, in his first year as a professional. He has gained a League-leading total of 830 yards, averaged four yards every time he ran. Last year, when Leemans played at George Washington University, he was not named on any major All-America team. Last summer, he worked as an instructor at Washington, D. C. playgrounds. When newspaper balloting for last September's All-Star college team began, Leemans' pupils organized a campaign...
During a "hot jam," Frenchman Emile Ignat, who was being relieved by his partner, Frenchman Emile Diot, gave Diot such an enthusiastic starting push that Diot's wheel wobbled and Ignat ran into it, spilling them both. It was the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, around an O-shaped pine-board track, with 15 teams of two men each dressed in bright jerseys, pedaling in relays on bicycles that cost $100, weigh 19 Ib. After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided...
...assent with her eyes." Deciding that he could not, as a brother-Communist, commit Morris' "beautiful daughter to a desperately insolvent marriage," Shaw said nothing to her. Still he believed that in some mystic way they were betrothed, and that she knew it, was consequently stunned when she ran off with a Comrade named Sparling, who was even poorer than himself. Nor was that all, for the rival's possibilities of future eminence were, Shaw rightly felt, more limited than...
...declared there seemed to be a very good reason at the time. After cruising around the square, and scraping acquaintance with the policeman of that village, the Harvard man suddenly decided he would die if he did not get a drink of water immediately. The car was stopped. He ran to a drinking fountain in the square, walked around it several times, stopped and stared. The paternal cop who had been observing the group for some time took him by the arm and led him slowly back to the car. "That ain't no drinking fountain, son" he said quietly...