Word: team
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention, a "forcing" system in which the initial bidder, wanting stronger indication of his partner's strength, bids not one club but two in any suit. After many cigarets had been smoked and much ice-water sipped from black goblets the Vanderbilt trophy was presented to the team of the New York Bridge Whist Club. The winners had used the new forcing system. So had the Cavendish Club team, which came in second, and so had the Knickerbocker Club team, which was third. Of all the teams in the room, only the one on which Mr. Vanderbilt played used...
...could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...
Members of Indiana's Anti-Shave Club, wearing beards till their team had won a game, saw a little back named George Ross score 14 points in the last ten minutes. Then the Club swarmed onto the field waving shaving mugs, brushes. Indiana 19, Northwestern...
Harvard wanted to save its regulars for Yale but had to put them in to beat a tough, unmannerly little team from Worcester, Mass. Harvard 12, Holy Cross...
Gentle gained an average of eight yards every time he took the ball?172 yards in all. He scored Penn's first touchdown, made extra points after its first and second, did most of the punting against a Columbia team outclassed by the Gentlemen. 20?...