Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unless the Centre eleven develops unexpected power, a straight line plunging attack ought to bring victory. As Yale and Princeton scouts will be watching every Harvard formation eagerly expecting to see them uncover one of their complicated trick plays, the coaches wish to guard the secrets of their offense and consequently will not open up such an attack unless it is a necessity...
...Western eleven uses a formation, uncommon in the east, in which the four backs are placed in a straight line parallel to the line of scrimmage. This gives added strength on end runs, but makes line-plunging less powerful. The elimination of the quarterback makes trick plays difficult from this formation, but the Westerners will undoubtedly uncover many variations of their basic formation...
...events Dr. Webster, having incurred debts with one Dr. Parkman and, having been unable to trick that gentleman with any great success, decided that the best way out of the difficulty would be to murder him. So he invited him to his laboratory and, when they were alone, disposed of him. Knowing that if he could entirely dispose of the body he could not under any circumstances be accused of murder, he summoned all his knowledge of chemistry to destroy it. He dismembered it and he boiled it and he treated it with acids until finally it was entirely disintegrated...
...least it is claimed that it was a fly, although some maintain that it was only a mosquito and fouled off the bat and was lost in the long grass behind the catcher, Robb Sagendorph '22, who was prevented from seeing where it went by a playful trick of the manager, who tripped him up as he turned to look. Houghton, however, swears that it was a long fly and went into the river. The ball did not float, so there is no means of verifying the length of the hit, or whether it went backwards or forward...
James Montgomery Flagg played a mean trick on Lampy. All he drew for it was his signature. The rest of his stuff was an editorial that looked funny in the Lampoon because it wasn...