Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one of four second-period BU scores came in the first 15 minutes, when Jack Cropeck whistled in down the right side with a shot from 15 out. Then suddenly the Crimson defense fell apart and within a minute the alert BU forwards had transferred a 2 to 1 game into a 5 to 1 game...
...same line opened the third period with another Crimson score. After a wicked drive by Moseley had been deflected, a shot by Abbot sailed in at 4:26 to make the score 5 to 3. As things got hot and stayed hot, each squad banged in three more tallies, BU's coming on well-working pass plays and Harvard's on quick stickwork in the crease...
Then there were those youngsters who wanted to ruin a real fine football game by setting off a pile of gunpowder in the middle of the field, and the other fellas who shot a bunch of Roman candles into the Yalie stands...
...other events the Crimson shows considerable strength. The dashes are strong with John Spivak, Dave Carter, and Thayer; Bud Lockett and Bill Lawrence are working at the pole vault; Don Trimble, the holder of the University record in the javelin, and Jerry Kanter, will put the shot; George Kumpel, Thayer, and Carter are strong in the broad jump; and John Cogan, Joe Leeming, Dick Welch, Joe Rosen, and Dick White give depth in the distance runs...
...Harvard touchdowns made the score 20-7. Just before the gun, a wave of substitutes ran in (a Harvard man does not get his letter unless he plays against Yale-and one play is enough). As the tide turned toward Harvard, some of the students went native, shot up crimson flares that looped across to the Yale rooting section, completed their afternoon's work by tearing down the goal posts...