Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson J.V. and third-string varsity bowed to Tufts' second-string varsity, 20-13, at Soldiers Field yesterday in a game marred by ten fumbles and nine penalties...
...slightly augmented junior varsity football team will face what was reported to be the second and third string Tufts varsity in its opening contest at Soldiers Field today at 3 p.m. Although the regular j.v. eleven will probably start the game, Coach Norman Shepard said that 11 varsity men will be on hand as the Crimson seeks to avenge last year's 42-6 trouncing by Tufts...
Perhaps most important of all, James ("Jimmy the Flash") Karam, head of the Arkansas State Athletic Commission, was on the scene from the beginning. Karam, once a third-string halfback at Auburn (he is fond of recalling his days as an "All-American"), turned professional strikebreaker (he bossed a goon-staffed outfit called Veterans Industrial Association Inc.), then became a Little Rock haberdasher and a near, dear friend to Governor Orval Faubus. Last week, while his wife was with Orval and Alta Faubus at Sea Island, Jimmy Karam moved purposefully around the crowd outside Central High School, whispering here, nodding...
...Minnesota alumnus sent Bobby to Minneapolis to sample the pleasures of life in a Big Ten football factory, but instead, Bobby moved to Seattle to play football for the University of Washington. By the end of his sophomore season, he was first-string quarterback, already building a reputation as a triple-threat gambler. He could run like a bulldozer and pass like a pro. He specialized in exasperating his coaches and exciting his fans by calling for such outrageous maneuvers as a third-down pass with only 1 yd. to go for a touchdown...
However, as is often the case, these optimistic predictions proved to be the kiss of death for Cornell. A long string of injuries cut down the Ithacans to such an extent that only a last-game victory over Penn saved them from a winless season...