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...Article 3b, on Eligibility to Catch a Pass, says: "Each player [is eligible] who is in an end position on the line of scrimmage and each player who is legally in his backfield and who is not in a position to receive a hand-to-hand snap from the center...
...Crimson soccer team will be more nearly matched than in the last few games when it meets Dartmouth at Hanover today, but there is some doubt as to whether the locals will be able to snap a four-game losing streak. Neither team has won an Ivy League contest...
Even without fuel injection, Chevy buyers will get plenty of snap in 1957. The company will offer no less than seven other engines, from a 140-h.p., six-cylinder model up to a 270-h.p. V-8 just a notch below the Corvette fuel-injection special. Another engineering change: a new "turbodrive" transmission for cars with the big engine, which combines a triple turbine and variable blades (like Buick's Dynaflow) for speedier getaway and better highway mileage. On bodies, Chevy spent some $50 million for a facelift: a new grille; higher, more sharply swept tail fins; a splashier...
Enough for kinship. The real question is "Which came first" and "Who is copying who?" Snap judgement might give the tree seniority. But one must not overlook the fact that a strong line of "beard" ancestry is that of Commander Whitehead, who may have fallen on ignoble days, but whose blood, nonetheless, flows back through the history of England. And England, as everybody knows, traces its blood to the line of Danaus, whose daughters drifted onto that island many years ago. And Danaus, as most everybody knows, was one of the first inhabitants of that land now called Greece...
With the score tied at 6-6, early in the period, Tufts had a fourth down and five to go on the H. 45 yard line. Every football convention calls for a punt in that situation, and Thompson lined up in a punt formation, but instead, he took the snap from center and fired a pass to fullback Normie Wright, free on the flat. He carried to the 25. Five plays later, Wright who was the spark in the Tufts attack, took a pitchout from Thompson on the four-yard line, and scored standing...