Word: sloppyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Molloy, five foot nine inch junior from Fairfield, Connecticut, has come a long way since the last two minutes of the 1951 Yale game. At that time, he had just set up the Crimson's third touchdown with a sloppy pass into the flat; rotund Herman Hickman sent Molloy into...
There were endless delays. French peasants refused to part with their land; wasteful engineering, hurry-up construction and sloppy workmanship resulted in lumpy, sagging runways that chipped under the weight of taxiing aircraft. Yet, one by one, good serviceable runways are being finished. Last week in the vital Central European...
Both defenses were steady and strong, but the offensive game on each side was sloppy. Although the Tigers and the Crimson were expected to use single wing attacks, neither squad varied much from the T-formation.
Playing in a high wind, both teams' attacks were sporadic and sloppy. Neither outfit could put together a passing attack, and the ball was usually just being kicked around, or else high in the air. Whenever it fell the Princeton player would beat the Harvard man to the bounce.
The Crimson played sloppy ball; no other word can describe it. Seven fumbles, combined with repeated ineffectiveness on plays like the wingback reverse marred its offensive game. On the defense, two persistent weaknesses were evident: ineptitude both on passes and on punt and kickoff returns.