Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, which up to last night had been a third period hockey team, shot its bolt in the first twenty seven minutes against Dartmouth and then never quite caught up to the fleet Indians...
...matter of speed. Dartmouth skated faster, passed better, and shot harder. The varsity couldn't check back as fast as the Indians lines could attack, and four goals were scored by Dartmouth on clear unhampered shots from close up--on these shots, Crimson goalie Bill Yetman never had a chance...
...after 12:51 of the first period Harvard couldn't score. They couldn't score because of Dick Desmond's goal play, and because insane defensemen like Mike Thayer threw themselves down on the ice every time they saw a shot coming. No team can score with a solid wall of bodies in front of the cage...
Long about ten years ago, Hollywood historians dug into the exploits of the notorious James boys (of St. Joe, not Cambridge) and found enough material for two full-length movies. The mother lode has run out, though, and the golden moments in "I Shot Jesse James" are not worth anywhere near the 85 cents it costs to assay them...
Perhaps the most incredible scene in the picture is when Frank James, armed with a battered Winchester, confronts the man who shot his brother in the back. The most feared desperado of the Old West glares a vengeful glare at his quavering victim and snarls in deadly tones: "I could shoot you, Bob Ford. But I won't. You see, I happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin...