Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton has scored victories over Columbia, Rutgers, Lafayette, Cornell, and Brown. Its only defeat was inflicted by Pennsylvania breaking a 24-game winning string. On the other hand, the Crimson has beaten Springfield, Washington University of St. Louis, Davidson, Colgate, and Dartmouth, while losing to Columbia...
Offensively, the varsity worked on long pass plays, with Dick Clasby and Hardy Cox doing the throwing. End Hank Rate, slowly working himself into playing shape after being injured against Springfield, alternated with Bob Cochran at right...
Much of the dialogue in Springfield Rifle misfires, but in the rugged performances of Cooper, Paul Kelly and David Brian and some bang-up battle sequences, the picture manages to hit the mark...
...Springfield, Mass, last week, Dwight Eisenhower told one of the few jokes of his campaign. It was the story about the colonel who asked for a promotion on the grounds of long experience in the service. The commanding officer refused and said: "Do you see that mule over there? He has been in that battery for 25 years, and he is still a mule." Ike used the story to illustrate the difference between real experience and mere endurance in office...
...Springfield Rifle (Warner) shows how Major Gary Cooper helped outwit Confederate spies during the Civil War and thus insured victory for a decisive Union Army offensive. Cooper is cashiered out of the cavalry, supposedly for cowardice. Actually, he has been assigned as an undercover agent to crack a Southern spy ring that is hijacking horses. With the help of the new, rapid-firing Springfield rifle, Cooper finally triumphs over the horse raiders, and is rewarded with an appointment to head a department of military intelligence in Washington...