Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lineup started on its own 30-yard line and marched to the Second's 30-yard stripe, where they gave up the ball on downs. Whitney shortly afterwards intercepted a pass and finally maneuvered his team down to the Jayvee's two-yard line, where the scrubs again held. The Seconds displayed little offensive and were able to make but one first down against the B team...
This condemnation from a hard-boiled politician of the Tammany stripe sent the Roosevelt crowd into a rage. Shrieked Senator Long: "Just the funeral march? the last screech of defeat! All Frank Hague knows is the road to Manhattan...
...balance to the first panhandler you meet on the street (TIME, Jan. 25). Don't take this seriously. Have known Dr. Hellwig a long time and he is not parochial, as his hasty missive might imply, but widely traveled and eminent in his specialty. He is just the stripe who would be very unhappy without his weekly installment of TIME. I speak as an old schoolmate' (Creighton University, Omaha) and a struggler on the same old primitive football team with Hellwig. am sure that he will continue to read TIME, the Jocelyn Museum to the contrary notwithstanding...
Yale took the ball on her own three yard stripe. Parker kicked to Crickard on Harvard's 38-yard line. Wilbur of Yale smothered a buck by Sherry. On the next play a mix-up in backfield forced the ball to Harvard's 32-yard line. Then Wood kicked to Booth, who was downed in his tracks on Yale's 41-yard stripe...
Crickard slashed through Yale's line for five yards. Supported by beautiful interference, Crickard swept around Yale left end for about 12 yards, the ball resting comfortably in Harvard's possession on the Eli 34-yard stripe...