Word: sandlots
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...football teams clash in a series of games characterized by violence rather than any strict observance of gridiron etiquette. The games to decide an intramural champion are marred by a barrage of un-called penalties and totally unnecessary injuries. Ostensibly conducted under full collegiate rules, House football betrays a sandlot amateurism that threatens to execute players instead of plays...
Cream of the Business School's softball duffers, The Chumps, were mathematically doped yesterday as a certainty to test the teeth of their Law School equivalent, the Legal Beagles; on the home sandlot this Saturday...
...Ambrose Ondrak is literally at home among the carcass-luggers and breast-splitters who sweat in the packing houses, among dirty-faced kids playing in vacant lots. He was born among them, of Czech immigrants, 54 years ago. As a boy he joined gangs, played sandlot football. On school holidays he weighed beef in the packing houses. In 1924, after he had been a priest for six years, he was sent to St. Michael's in the Back of the Yards district as assistant pastor. Since the pastor of St. Michael's must be a Slovak, Father Ambrose...
Except for some sandlot experience, Murphy is no ballplayer himself, having confined his spring athletic talents to the cinder paths while at Harvard. For this reason he is considered by some to be an outsider and not entitled to be the head of a union of baseball players...
...leads the league in interceptions, with six. He has place-kicked 29 out of 31 attempted conversions. His favorite play is the "bootlegger": Waterfield simply fakes to other backs, then pulls some fast sleight-of-hand and swings out around end, literally hiding the ball behind his back. This sandlot ruse has made four opponents look sick...