Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening period, both teams made many advances into opposing territory, only to encounter an unpassable defence. Finally, about half way through this session, Hudson, at left wing for the Canadians, found an opening, and shot the puck past Bigelow, for the first tally of the contest...
...general stand of this wing of the Debating Union upon questions of domestic and international interest, legislative innovations, trust and labor legislation, and economic affairs will be agreed upon at the meeting and will be announced Wednesday morning...
...first eleven, the Dartmouth and Princeton pairs stand out most conspicuously, with Jenkins of Harvard and Hulman of Yale also due for serious consideration. Lynch of Dartmouth was finally selected for the way he covered punts and the general excellence of his defensive play. For the other wing, Bjorkman of Dartmouth and the Princeton trio, Smith Gray, and Stout, were clearly the most deserving contestants. Smith was chosen, not for any exceptional brilliancy, but rather because, of the high quality of his play maintained throughout the first half of the Tiger-Crimson contest and his ability as a drop-kicker...
...Hell to Heaven the proposed canonization of a pious son of he Church always required the appointment of a "devil's advocate" to take up the verbal cudgels for the unpopular side of the argument. This until the connotation changes, will be much the position of the Conservative wing of the newly formed Harvard Debating Union. The present generation shied at the word conservative as a skittish horse from a piece of newspaper, and with as much reason...
...expect revolutionary changes of the Debating Union is of course absurd. It is handicapped by the lack of tradition and precedent which has more than once proved fatal to undergraduate innovations. But its foundation gains strength from the formation of two opposing wings entirely outside of American political party affiliations. The Liberal side, represented in the Progressive wing, has already been successful in arousing interest. It remains for the Conservative wing so to organize its efforts, that it will draw out the support of the large group of natural conservatives in the University...