Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Paul Sweet of New Hampshire, whose team has lost to Maine 22-34 and to Rhode Island 15-54, will enter Captain Roland Kimball, Howie Atwell, Dick Emery, John French, Earle Handley, Roy Holmes, Wayne Lorwy, Truxton Perry-Smith, Joe Pushee, and Jim Sleeper...
...final period. Two long runs by Cole and two passes, Ferdinand to Cole and Ferdinand to right and Hathaway brought the ball to the Puritan's nine yard marker. Winthrop dug in at this point and held for four downs. The Funsters tried a couple of passes, one a sleeper, but the Puritan safety man Ab Fenn, was not to be caught napping and broke up the play. The game ended with both teams passing madly but vainly in an attempt to break the scoreless...
...together over the wire the other evening and drew out an agreement--a gentleman's agreement. It had to do with the new substitution rule and each one agreed that he would not take advantage of the new "free-sub" decision to pull off one of the old sleeper plays...
...Cornell was caught with her pants napping, but as luck would have it, the sleeper pass to the man on the sidelines was bad and Syracuse failed to score...
...pioneer, he was prepared to defend his narrow-gauge ideas from any and every angle. Narrow-gauge Pullmans would be an advantage, said he, because "the coaches would not be so wide as to allow the sleeper to roll with the movement of the train." Said a caustic newspaper writer...