Word: united
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blaik has had to do nothing to bolster his offensive team. It has a great first unit and excellent reserves, so excellent that though fullback Gil Stephenson indulged in but two plays against Michigan, his presence was not particularly missed. We can compare this with a Harvard team without Howie Houston--as was the case at Columbia--and come to a horrifying conclusion...
...Blaik has had to replace his defensive team from tackle to tackle. His replacements have been more than adequate, limiting Michigan to less than 100 yards rushing and the first three Army opponents to a total of 288 yards. Meanwhile the offensive unit piled up 666 net yards rushing and another 382 yards through the air. Opponents got 176 yards by forward passing...
Yesterday the varsity went through its regular Thursday practice, highlighted by five minutes--12 plays--of scrimmage for each unit...
Just about the only sharp disappointment the Communists suffered was in sales of a soft drink called Unita, brewed to replace Coca-Cola, which the Reds have denounced as capitalist poison (TIME, Aug. 22). Unità, which looks like Coke but has a strong flavor of quinine and tamarind, was a flop. Since Communist palates still thirsted for real Coke, the party decided to play it safe. "Comrades," announced a poster, "Coca-Cola was not invented by the Americans, but by the Russians...
...always takes the first game to blend the team into a unit and see the men in action," said Lamar. "But they were moving," he said, citing the fact that the yearlings had only had to punt twice in the whole contest...