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...goalie makes a slip, it is a score against him and his team. Target of whizzing pucks, he must be nimble as a squirrel, sharp-eyed as a hawk. And since a perfect performance for him is a shutout, he works for naught on the scoreboard...
...attempt for point after, from where we were it looked like a good one. It doesn't go up and it doesn't go up on the scoreboard. My last jubilant croak dies in the aesophagus. Sudden and blinding revelation. It was no goal...
...game could call it anything but a Harvard victory. The fourteen-fourteen figure was for the scoreboard alone; the second touchdown was the royal flush, and no one could call the Crimson hand. The battle waged by the team in the face of the most discouraging odds has brought applause from even the most partial observers of Princetonian sympathies. The first touchdown was no tricky pass or dramatic run. It was fought for, inch by inch, and showed more than any one thing what the Harlow team has now become. The new spirit was shown again in the trench warfare...
...audience so bent on whooping things up that it cheered almost every sentence, whether applause was indicated or not, the Democratic Nominee cried: "A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. . . . Now, when the present management of your team took charge in 1933 the national Scoreboard looked pretty bad. . . . Our national income had declined over 50% . . . from $81,000,000,000 a year to $38,000,000,000 a year. . . . The money to run the Government comes from taxes; and the tax revenue in turn depends for its size on the size of the national income...
...time-clock on the Stadium scoreboard was doing some funny things in the last period of Saturday's game. For a while the hand seemed to be stuck, and when we later glanced that way it had moved backwards. Finally we saw an arm rise above the blur of humanity underneath the scoreboard and set back the clock's hand several minutes...