Word: team
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right weather for husking is cold and clear?the husks, brittle then, break easily. At Renz's the air was warm and the ground muddy, but the wagons went fast. A good husker never looks at his wagon. He trains his team to move the way he husks, stand a pace, step a pace, to the rattle of the ears on the bangboard. White corn, yellow corn. 45 ears a minute thumping into the wagon. . . . An ordinary workman could not pick it up as fast as that even if it were husked. Red corn. . . . At a husking bee when...
Golden Gleam, with Capt. Stuart Blake up, lost the Military Team Trophy for the Canadians by committing 20½ faults after the rest of the team had made a perfect score. The Polish team, with 2½ faults, won the cup while hundreds of Manhattan's Polish citizenry outyelled their disgruntled Italian and Canadian neighbors in the gallery...
...Class series, on the other hand, has a very definite objective. The winners of the series receive their numerals, have their names inscribed on a permanent class trophy, play against the winning Yale class team and in case of victory over Yale, receive medals. This fall the winning Sophomores who defeated the Yale Seniors at New Haven 26-0 are very proud with all these honors. In addition they have been chosen by J. L. Knox, coach of the Second Varsity, to demonstrate Holy Cross and Yale plays for the Varsity team...
...wonder Firpo Greene postponed the taking of the Yale Football picture for six weeks after the game in the event of the non-return of the old fence. Without some sort of support it would certainly be at least six weeks before the team could stand up for a picture after the results of this afternoon's contest...
...guard and captain of the Blue forces. A deadly tackler and a fast charger, he is the tower of strength in the Yale forward wall that has been opening up the holes for Booth all year. After an early season defeat at the hands of Georgia, Greene led his team to successive victories over Army, Dartmouth, and Princeton...