Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return for all this activity, the tryouts get a chance to become Sophomore managers and an inside on Coach Harlow's machinations. The trick shift, used effectively in the Penn game, was old stuff to the managers...
With campus and equipment gone, Yenching makes shift in three middle and primary school buildings in Chengtu, limits its enrollment to about 250 (a quarter of its pre-war students). But 3,000 candidates, a record for a missionary college anywhere, anytime, took its entrance examinations...
...sharp, succinct sentences, the W & M coach, Carl Voyles, said, "I'm glad we're playing Harvard and I think Dick Harlow is a great coach. I don't, however, approve of the way Harvard used the double shift against Penn. If Harvard doesn't use the shift against us, we won't use it, either. But if Harvard does use it, we'll do the same as much as we possible...
Voyles' statement puts the decision squarely up to Harlow as to whether he will again employ the much-discussed shift this afternoon when the two oldest colleges in the country clash on the gridiron this afternoon in what should prove to be one of the most exciting games of the season...
Post-game gossip about lack of variety at the crucial moments when the Crimson stood before Penn's goal-line can be discounted . . . The Varsity ran eight running plays, tossed four passes, and worked a double shift inside the Penn 20 . . . Ironically, the team stalled on the two and the three but scored from the 27-yard line . . . George Boston, the Freshman who caught Comeford's six-pointer, made his Varsity debut with his thumb in a cast . . . It will take the movies to reveal how he managed to hold the ball with two defenders on his back...