Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jumped from the crumble of sod, went down, caught, slipped...
...good work. The person who drew the lady in the African river should be instructed in anatomy. With the air filled by anthropology Professors who discuss the "missing link" over the radio, nothing could be more priceless than the first picture in the magazine, a chip of the Old Sod. The "Prologue" is above reproach...
...could Captain Greenough's team ever defeat, such a combination as this? The answer to the question is not lacking. The Nassau combination which had torn the grass off in the Stadium a week ago, slipped and floundered vainly on its own sod. Gone was the vicious charge; gone was the impregnable defense: the Tiger had become a purring kitten...
...Marston, defending champion, survived until the semifinal. There Von Elm trampled him, 7 and 6, into his native sod. W. L. Hope, of Turnberry, Scotland, was longest-lived of the British entrants; but it was in the second round that Dexter Cummings, intercollegiate champion, did away with...
There is some compensation for having one's nose ground into the sod two hours every afternoon for two months if that operation makes a place for one in collegiate football history. A pommelled ear aches the less when it hears the tribute of a cheer, and the pain of a twisted knee is forgotten if that knee helped to push the ball over the enemy's goal line. But what of the second team the black jersies, for whom there is endless drubbing and few cheers, plenty of pains and only a thin official notice...