Word: springs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of last Spring when I was making time on the Charles River's banks, they were over at Soldiers Field every afternoon listening to a new coach explain a new system. And as the days became lazier, they put on pads and helmets and put into practice a strange system of football. At times they wished that they had never come out. A half dozen quit. Yet in the end, they slowly became aware that they were learning to move the ball. Spring practice was over, and soon after, they were off to Summer jobs...
...took her and a lot of other people a long time to find out that the Harvard team doesn't have a bellyful of jelly. Those weren't emergency rations that we pulled on Brown. It was now about time for some of that long hard work beginning last Spring to start paying off. There were a lot of things that were good, like Paul Shafer's running, and Jim Noonan's passing, and Chuck Rocho's kicking, and Hal Mofilo's faking, but there was something that meant even more. That was when the whole team sitting...
What Herman didn't bring with him from Army was the 1948 Yale schedule. Even as far back as last spring, there started the steady chorus of means from the Y.A.A. minions which has risen to a crescendo over the past few Saturdays...
When he returned to Michigan in 1946 after his tour with the Eighth Airforce, Madar wasn't able to report for spring practice because a torn cartilage had to be removed from his knee. The operation was successful and in the fall, Elmer caught enough passes and blasted enough ball carriers to make almost every all-American first team listing...
Complaints that Sanders is let to outside groups on nights when students want it can be traced to this two-way ruling. Last spring when the HTW failed to complete its application for Sanders, they found that the Corporation Office had allotted one of the nights they wanted, apparently open, to a University sponsored Rotary meeting. The only group outside the University to get Sanders space is the Massachusetts Medical Association, which uses the theater just six hours a week in the spring for its refresher lectures...