Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's second fall sport takes off at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon at Alumni Field in Medford when Coach Bruce Munro's second Crimson soccer team opens its season against Tufts...
Recent practice injuries to veteran fullback Mike Scully and forwards Charlie Weiss and Ben Goldstein "just haven't come around." as Munro says. Bruce had been hoping this trio would be in better shape by now than it is. As a result, he plans to "squeak through" today with second-stringers in the lineup and at least save his starters for the rest of the season...
Brooklyn, which as a rule has trouble finishing a game in less than three hours, was faced with the bizarre problem of starting a second game at 3:42 and trying to sneak in five innings before rain and darkness reduced the playing field to a London for scene. Had the Flock lost, it would have been the first time a game was lost by three minutes. Apparently it really started pouring immediately after the fifth inning, for a seeing eye dog from plate umpire Al Barlick reported to the press box with the intelligence that the game was hereby...
There will undoubtedly be much sniveling in the eminently fair Boston press today to the effect that the game should have been called in about the third inning. In this I cannot concur. Once the three umpires had decided that the weather was not bad enough to call the second game, they had no reason to call it after it got under way, and the Braves found themselves eight runs behind...
...Braves couldn't quite get the idea. They happily, milled around, made copious use of the rosin bag, and moved to their positions with the speed and agility of arthritis sufferers. Cooney used three pitchers, though after the second inning the Brooks did their level best to strike, ground...