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...playing field itself is 27 feet below ground level and the top tier of the stadium is 26 feet above grounds. To prevent the field from turning into a lake, architect Ferry provided the Bowl with an extensive drainage system. He designed the Bowl so that it slants west to east, the western side being 11 feet higher that the eastern. Of the Bowl's thirty drains in the portals leading towards the field some slant away with the slant of the ground, but those that slant into the Bowl are drained in to water pipes...
...took the Crimson almost the whole first period to break the scoring ice. After some futile opening scrimmages, the home team let a Brown punt roll dead on its own 32. An Ossman fake and a Clasby slant, followed by a Brown penalty, put the ball on the Bruin 39. Then Ederer took the ball on a reverse, swept wide, passing to the diving Crowley on the Brown 13. It took two more fakes by Ossman to score at 12:30. Left-footed Bill Monteith kicked the first of four placements, and the Crimson...
...first half, apparently at will. The first came in the opening period on a run by Bill Hickey around right end for 35 yards. The next three scores came all in the second period, on passes from Walt Greeley to Hickey and Bob Switzer and a fullback slant off tackle for 30 yards by, Dave Cudhea...
...fire ("I'm an honorary member"). And on his way to his office in Woodbridge Hall, he would still stop now & then to level his Leica, snap a camera shot of a student, a building or a professor. But once in his office, seated at his 18th Century slant-top desk, Whitney Griswold proved he knows how to govern...
...take a plain sight-seeing tour. You can try one with a music slant and go to music festivals. Or you can take a tour with an architecture slant and concentrate on looking at buildings and monuments...