Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Duke tilt, the team got wind of the fact that Jack Coombs, Blue Devil coach, was anticipating a pushover, having seen the Crimson's uninspired performance against North Carolina the day before. Harvard rallied that day to overcome a five run Duke lead, and held the crack home outfit on even terms until fielding lapses in the seventh saw Coombs' men forge into the lead...
Brackett started on the mound against Nave, since the Georgetown tilt was rained out. Curtiss relieved him in the third, and after a shaky start, settled down to pitch a good brand of ball...
...tilt today will be only a seven inning affair, but most of this year's diamond aspirants will be given a chance to show their worth, because as yet the make-up of the traveling squad for the spring vacation trip is undetermined...
...major singers, a large chorus, 80 stage hands and technicians, an orchestra of 114, ten full beards, one horse. Richard Wagner's masterpiece contains practically every theatrical trick except Eliza crossing the ice-swimming Rhine maidens, a roaring dragon, a rainbow, galloping Valkyries, a Nibelung forge going full tilt, quantities of magic fire, and, at the end, the collapse in fire and flood of a castle full of gods...
Captain Lupe Lupien leads his victory-hungry five for the last time, and Fred Heckel also bows out of competition against the favored Blue tonight. Other Seniors who are certain to see action in the tilt are handy man Dick Sullivan and center Tread Ruml. The Feslermen need a win tonight to pull the Elis down with them in a tie for the cellar in the final E. I. L. standings...