Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...howled down out of the Northwest, spun off the flanks of the Colorado Rockies, and whirled free and angry across the Great Plains. To western Kansans, this was it-a sure-enough "blue norther,"* the season's first. Soon screaming winds, as high as 80 miles an hour, lashed the wheatfields with blinding snow and churned up great white drifts. Transcontinental trains ground to a halt; ice-sheathed communication lines sagged and snapped. Thousands of grubbing cattle, trapped in the snow, froze to death on the hoof...
Mauran broke the back of any concerted Eli opposition on the first play of the second half when behind good blocking, he spun and tore his way through the whole Yale team 80 yards for a touchdown. Rosenau added the point and made...
...then straightened with a jump. "Harvard!" he called--to the green bags going to class who didn't turn around; to the gray flannels coming back from Chipp's who just waved and shifted their bundles. Vag gathered up a handful of leaves, started forward, one-two, stopped, spun and then punted over the nearest convertible. The leaves scattered across the canvas but before they were still, Vag was off down Mt. Auburn on the run, leaping to touch the magenia flags with his fingertips. "Har--vard!" he called to the clear New England sky, but it didn't blanch...
...break in the game came with ten minutes to go. Harvard took the ball after Yale missed a field goal attempt, and drove to a score in 13 plays. Struck faked, spun, and cracked off tackle for twenty yards; Macdonald ran for more; and with the ball on the nine, Foley charged into his right tackle, faked, and cut outside to score standing up. Chief Boston lifted a kick through snow, sleet, rain, and mud, and it was all over. The tired Yale team never came back...
Once through the line, the backs ran like acrobatic deer. Paul Shafer spun, cut back, and ploughed through crowds of Brown tacklers all afternoon. He played his best game of the season. For the first time this year Jimmy Noonan looked like a polished passer...