Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goal posts left standing Saturday also showed a unique change from their Monday morning condition in former years. They were badly whittled away, and decidedly weak on their foundations, but no effort had been made to take them down or to do more than get a "souvenir of the game." Due to the extant of the whittling, new uprights, costing...
...team didn't coordinate well, and was weak on fundamentals and drive throughout the game. Captain Healey stood out in the line, and Sargeant did a good job on defense, baking up the forward wall, but observers noted there is still a long way to go before the Yardlings will enter a gams as favorites...
Except for Parson Prang, the political characterizations are weak. The none too obvious but nevertheless pertinent implications about the present administration have, of course, been totally disregarded, much to the detriment of the story. And then, too, the dramatic presentation makes overmuch of a buffoon of "Buzz" Windrip...
Only less praiseworthy than the desire of wrestling promoters to exploit monsters is the willingness of monsters to have themselves exploited. No athlete, Levia than Levy is actually a victim of both elephantiasis and a weak heart. He runs a Boston parking lot, works intermittently in circuses, has so much appetite and so little fastidiousness that he eats peanuts in the shells. When wrestling, Leviathan Levy wears a tire tube for a belt. Off his feet, he requires four men to stand him up again. Opponents find him formidable be cause he is too big to hold, too slippery...
...ball, a slippery field and no Davie Davis," ruefully explained Coach Howard Jones of Southern California, mourning the loss of his dynamic little quarterback, out with a torn rib cartilage in the first quarter. Coach Jones did not explain weak passing, bad kicking, silly generalship, as a defensive Washington State team played his would-be champions to a 0-to-0 standstill...