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Word: scrubbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having seen the need for a spring sport which would attract some athletes and still be enjoyable when played "scrub", the Department of Physical Education has decided to inaugurate a new sport at Harvard. This game, speedball, will combine the best features of football, soccer, basketball, and hockey, and be as enjoyable as tag football or squash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SPORT, SPEEDBALL, IS INAUGURATED AT HARVARD | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

Following the lead of J. W. Hallowell '31, shifty scrub wingman, the second University sextet came through with a 4 to 2 win over the Noble and Greenough outfit in a fast match on the Charlesbank rink yesterday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBLE AND GREENOUGH BOWS TO SECOND UNIVERSITY SIX | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...mackinaw coat, riding trousers, laced boots and ten-gallon hat, motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...first University tally came early in the contest when Putnam caught a punt standing on his own 45-yard line and dodged and twisted his way through the entire scrub outfit. His drop kick was good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM B DOWNS SCRUBS 28 TO 6 IN SCRIMMAGE | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

Following the single scrub touchdown which came shortly after this, team B scored its final points with T. W. Gilligan '31 featuring in a 75 yard march. On two runs around end Gilligan covered forty yards and then threw a pass to F. S. Grant '29 for 20 more. From this point he circled the left wing for the touchdown and kicked in the final point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM B DOWNS SCRUBS 28 TO 6 IN SCRIMMAGE | 10/31/1928 | See Source »

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