Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first three years in the pro loop, Jacunski had it rough. He played second string behind the incomparable Don Hutson. "The little exercise kept me in good shape," says Harry, "but it wasn't exactly healthy for the pocketbook...
After four periods of the hardest football seen on Soldiers Field all year, the Mastodons had firmly convinced all observers of their superiority, as they scored a bloody 8 to 2 win over a rough and tough Deacon squad. Hard-running Austie Lyne, Jumbo right-half, climaxed a 58-yard march with the game-winning off-tackle plunge from the one-yard stripe into the second period...
When he did get in, Quarterback Layne apparently forgot in the pinches that he had one of the most valuable throwing arms in college football. He tried smacking through the rough, tough S.M.U. line. The few times a Texas ballcarrier shook into the clear, Doak Walker, who played the full 60 minutes, was there to help nail him. After four quarters of even-Stephen play, it was sandy-haired Doak Walker's kicking toe that made the difference. S.M.U. won, 14 to 13, and after the game fans carried both Layne and Walker off the field. The game dumped...
Along the line, the little black dinks found their way to Princeton, and the glorious battle between non-bedinked Freshmen and the sophisticated Sophomores replaced the rough and tumble of the old cane sprees...
Bender's main work, however, is not making plans, but seeing merely that things run from day to day. He welcomes all students with difficulties, but especially the rough ten percent that gets "involved" with the delicate machinery of parietal and scholastic rules; in these cases, Bender is both judge and jury. He probably champs at the bit at many of these interviews, while he plans a Harvard that is a more socially conscious community...