Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the quality and the quantity of the backfield material which is available for the coming football season are of such a nature as to lead Crimson supporters to hope for a successful year on the gridiron. Speed, experience, and stamina can all be found in abundance in the group of 11 men who, excluding quarterbacks, are now striving for berths in the Crimson jerseyed backfield...
...games he has taken part in. His chief weakness lies in his susceptibility to injuries which have often kept him on the side lines when his presence in the line up might have been a deciding factor. If he succeeds in avoiding the injury jinx this season, his tremendous speed and wealth of experience should go far towards making the current season a successful...
Guarnaccia has been a most dependable performer ever since he was unearthed from among the obscure ranks of the seconds during his Sophomore year. His speed combined with his exceptional stamina and considerable weight have made him most valuable as a line plunger and a defensive back. He is much the same type of player as Harper whose resounding tackles and smashing line bucks were among the high lights of last year's games. It is remarkable too that neither Harper nor Guarnaccia were ever heard of as football players until their Sophomore year in college...
...After the racing automobile had cast in the dust the body of its unhappy driver and continued to massacre innocent victims the race was not stopped and the motors continued their song of speed...
...goals. Yet last week the Papacy's official spokesman not only contradicted Il Duce's orders but clearly designated him by implication as "profane"−for Benito Mussolini travels about Italy chiefly and by preference at the wheel of his own low, rakish bellowing speed...