Word: romp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timothy Dwight staged a sustained third-period drive to nose out Leverett 7 to 0 in a slow game which found the Bunnies slightly outclassed by their Eli opponents. Rob Bast broke loose from the 30 to romp over the the TD touchdown...
This rating, based on season records, is, however, very deceptive. For the Crimson first year charges, after getting off to a slow start because of organization and placement difficulties, have bounded back to romp over their last two opponents, taking the Dartmouth yearlings, 20 to 0, two weeks ago, and then the Bruin Freshmen, 28 to 7, last Saturday...
Carefully polishing their bright white shoes, nattily adjusting their deep blue ties, Yale-men occasionally take a jaunt to the Bowl on Saturday afternoons to watch Levi and his cohorts romp through their paces. But as for gridiron activities in the outlying provinces, they know precious little. Witness the card received from a Boy in Blue by a local undergraduate. It is printed verbatim...
...skinny tomboy with red pigtails she liked to romp over to Grossmama's, where amateur violinists and cellists sawed their way through Brahms and Beethoven while writers on the local German-language newspaper argued politics and were kept from quarreling by matriarchal Grossmama ("her strength lay in her gentleness"). At mealtimes, as many as 30 sat around Grossmama's huge table to eat her Sauerbraten, Hasenpjeffer, herring salad and Torten and Kaffee stollen. "We had a gemütlich upbringing," says Traubel. "Our theory was 'lucky is the person who is happy...
Glynn put his team back in the game briefly with an 82-yard romp off tackle in the third quarter, but Dunster came roaring back in the same frame as Vic Critchlow intercepted a forward pass and raced 60 yards down the sidelines behind fine blocking. Glynn's touchdown pass to Bob Snow climaxed a late drive from midfield to set the stage for Kirkland's freak conversion...