Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fans last week when the officials in two major games bungled up matters rather successfully. The facts of the cases have been already hammered into the heads of newspaper readers, but for the benefit of all let them be again repeated. Dr. Eddie O'Brien, refereeing the Brown-Yale tilt, allowed Clare Curtin, Eli tackle, to run with the ball after a Yale kick had been blocked. The contention of the Bruins was that the Yale player picked up the oval behind the goal-line and thus deprived them of a legitimate safety. The other faux pas was the incident...
This week Coach Casey has plenty of work to do, if he wants to whip the team into shape for the Dartmouth tilt. All phases of the eleven's play must be smoothed out if the Crimson forces want to redeem themselves. The pass defense news considerable polishing, the line play must improve, and the best defense of all, a good offense, must hit its stride. Dartmouth emerged victorious from the Penn match and is rejoicing over Harvard's showing. It will be in town next Saturday aching for a taste of the Crimson's blood after two years...
Coach Casey started the business of whipping into shape the team, which he plans to start against the Crusaders. At present the lineup is the same as that which started the New Hampshire tilt. All members of the Varsity squad were on the field in uniform, for the first time in several weeks. Schumann and Healey are all set to go in against Holy Cross, but because injuries have kept them out of scrimmages for nearly two weeks it is unlikely that they will be in the starting lineup. Kelly was working out yesterday and seems fit as a fiddle...
...most big transport planes a passenger may tilt his chair far back, but semi-vertical sleep is not easy. Knowing that the U. S. traveler expects more solid comfort, Eastern Air is experimenting with berths just like a Pullman car's. To start, the company installed only two berths in one plane, a lower and upper, complete with reading lamps, clothing nets, hangers. It had yet to prove that passengers, who think nothing of disrobing in a train or at sea, would believe they are safe without clothes in a plane...
...most impressive performances of the Saturday tilt was the punting of Captain Dean...