Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be so coached, with free graduate aid at the tight places, today if it had not happened that the rivalry that began some two decades ago on a large scale, due to the rise of football in the smaller institutions, brought in the paid graduate or the professional coach...
Displaying a more powerful attack and more air-tight defence than it has at any time before this season, the Crimson five chalked up its fifth consecutive victory last night in downing the Connecticut Aggies quintet, 34 to 26. The University jumped into an early lead that was never threatened and only a trio of long shots at the end of the game kept down the final margin...
...certain camp which nestled in the wilderness outside the city, at which times they discussed ideals. Their little group grew rapidly. They determined to invite Dr. Mott. They invited also George Sherwood Eddy, preeminent among the exhorters of Americans and others, who speaks always with clenched fist, contracted brow, tight-drawn lips. He bullies men's consciences, he stirs their emotions. In almost every land, he has exhorted for peace, brotherhood, personal purity, "taking Christ seriously...
...consent to Stanton's removal and he returned to his office in the War Department building. President Johnson, however, appointed General Lorenzo Thomas Secretary of War. When Thomas tried to take over the Department, Stanton refused to budge. He had a hot temper and a sharp tongue. He sat tight, even lived in his office for a number of days. He called General Grant to his aid and General Carr was placed in charge of the War Department building to prevent Stanton's ejection by force...
Andover starts the game with an imposing record of seven wins and but one defeat. The schoolboys' principal power lies in an air-tight defense and their crack forward, Billhardt. Billhardt has been the high-scorer for Andover throughout the year, making an individual total of 17 points against Tufts and 13 against the Princeton 1928 outfit. HARVARD 1928 ANDOVER Slocum, r.f. l.g., Morgan Baldwin, l.f. r.g., Burns Barbee, c. c., Brockelman Oothout, r.g. l.f., Frigard Meisenbach, l.g. r.f., Billhardt