Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Gordon was the outstanding figure of the game, playing the best brand of basketball he has exhibited on University teams. His passing was accurate and he had a dead eye for the basket. The support from his team-mates was excellent and their rapid short passes often counted for the Crimson. The game was cleanly played and hard fought throughout by both teams...
...succeeded in reaching the surface-they had used all their depth charges and had sent one chaser in for more. Finally, there was silence for some hours, followed by a very sharp ringing sound recognized as the crack of a revolver. This was succeeded by other sinister sounds in rapid succession, twenty-five in all, which indicated all too clearly that the doomed crew had abandoned hope of getting their vessel under way and hand resorted to suicide rather than suffer a slow agonizing death by suffocation...
This play, written by Wilson Cullison and Avery Hapwood, is successfully acted by the Somerville Players. The plot is a rapid succession of situations, resulting in untold complication. Miss Anne Hamilton in the role of Gertie, the heroine, is most attractive; and Mr. Harry Bond as Gertie's husband, and Mr. Halbert Brown as the clownish butler, do justice to difficult roles...
Such changes have occurred before but never have the fluctuations been so rapid or so extensive within a short period...
...Play was rapid from the start. Early in the first half, Linglebach received the ball on a pass from Captain Amelia, and scored on a clever 20-foot shot. A few minutes later a pretty pass, Blair to Partridge, nearly resulted in a tally, but the ball was blocked by Bondi. With about ten minutes to play Wale was knocked out in a stiff scrimmage. He resumed play after time out. Coach Welch sent in Hartley for Sullivan, shifting the latter to Furber's position at right halfback. Blair then scored from a scrimmage in front of the goal...