Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's players had the edge on over-tricks but missed a crucial grand slam and five games. Harvard was content to play the 15 trick laydown grand slam in six clubs. Not all of the five missed games, however, can be blamed on the team's underbidding as two were only 25 per cent plays, not worth bidding when scoring by IMPs...
...boom and beat inflation too, he warned: "We must be alert to assure that the pace of our advance does not become too rapid, endangering the healthy stability and sound balance of our expansion. Yet to conclude that we must proceed cautiously does not mean that we should slam on the brakes or throw the economy into reverse...
...number one match should be the tightest, and a real doozie besides. Adams will shovel his repertoire of shots against the slam game of Yale captain John West. Against Princeton's Burt Gay last Saturday. West won a 3-0 victory with frightening case. Maybe West will remember back to his freshman year, after winning the national junior championship, when Adams blasted him by a 3-0 score...
...world's most exacting sports. The trick is to stay just short of disaster, taking the steeply banked turns as high as possible (so as to pick up speed on the way down), threading an absolutely straight course through the narrow straightaways, where a momentary miscalculation will slam the sled into a solid wall...
After winning the toss and electing to receive, Yale started the game in slam-bang fashion. Jim Fisher took Jim Babcock kickoff on his two-yard line, veered to the left, and eluded the grasp of several Harvard tacklers. He was finally hit on the Crimson's 36-yard line by safetyman Tom Williamson after a gain of 62 yards...