Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defensive reserves, Coach Bigelaw has Clark and Howe, while Princeton will call on Charles and Martin to relieve its tired defenders. Charles, though an accurate shot, whose specialty is masked shots from outside the defense, is hardly as valuable a guard as Clark and Howe. In defense, therefore, the Tigers are also below the Crimson in reserve strength...
...galaxy of stars have been entered, and the question of who wins will depend largely on who gets the best start. Miller has been getting away fast lately, and stands an equal show with every one. Burns is still hampered by an old football injury. Pratt in the shot put is the University star in the other events...
...opening shot in the form of a "Prologue" proves a nasty sock at the reader with even the faintest metrical sensibilities. This tasty bit of verse contains no less than five various meters comprising trimeter, tetrameter and rentameter with iambs, and dactyls thrown in for good measure, and while thrown in for good measure, and while we cannot but approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this...
...games Saturday night the following men have been entered; Shot put, Coleman, Fordyce, Guarnaccia, Millen, Potter and Pratt; high jump, Beal, Hollis, Jenney, Jones and Renouf; 600-yard run, Dayenport, Hall, Kane, Kobes and Koch; 1000-yard run, Boyce, King and Ryan; K. of C. mile, Haggerty, Tibbets and Watters; hurdles Ballentine, Clarke, Greenslet, Henrich, Jones, Learson, Weinstein; Two mile run, Luttman; University relay, Broome, Dunn, Hunneman, Kane, Lundell, O'Neil, Rogers, and Watters; Freshman relay, Coleman, Dorman, Dunn, Hulgman, O'Connell, Sheehan, Smith, Tupper and White; 40-yard dash, Burns and Miller...
Colonel MacNider went on to say that it is the duty of the Assistant Secretary of War to look after this emergency surplus. "If it is not there when the day arrives he will be the first one to be stood up against the wall and shot," he declared. He remarked that he was not willing to be shot until every one was lined up together...