Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down but not out, Lowell saw its chances for victory fade further into the distance in the third quarter, as the puritan powerhouse racked up another six points on a Dreher-to-Davenport pass from the six-yard stripe. The final score same in the closing, minutes when Jack Carpenter smashed off tackle for six yards...
George "Kubla" Kuhn, flashy right end, grabbed a shaky pass to the flat and raced forty yards to the Lowell 15 before a fleet Bellboy brought him to earth. Several plays later Tom Lacy plunged over for the touchdown from the one-yard stripe...
Wendell Willkie was a walking, talking political paradox: he was trying to make a non-partisan campaign. Convinced that he will get the basic 16,500,000 regular Republican votes anyway, he struck again & again into Democratic strongholds, into areas that had never seen a Presidential nominee of any stripe, traveled over rusty railspurs that had never held a passenger train. Correspondents agreed that, as a campaigner, he was a terrific in-&-outer. Groups of a half-dozen he wholly charmed; with 300 he was excellent; with 10,000 he was fair; faced by more than 20,000 people...
...Crimson offense began rolling with Phil Strong, George Ditz, and Marsh Holleb each collecting three points. Conversions by Dave Colwell after the first and last tally brought the total to sixteen. Although the Boston Club seriously threatened several times in both periods, they were unable to cross the final stripe...