Word: year
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Despite the lack of sleep, the team played one of its best games of the year. But it wasn't until the final quarter that the Crimson's really hustled to life...
...race. However farsighted, the action was politically dishonorable; Alfred E. Smith, Roosevelt's opponent for the nomination was an enormous favorite in Boston. So popular was Smith that for months after Curley's break with him, the Boston people wouldn't turn out to hear Curley speak. In that year, the State democratic convention sent Governor Ely as head of the delegation to Chicago to vote for Smith's nomination...
Today's is a battle between two teams neither of which has as yet fully realized its offensive potentialities. This afternoon they may find themselves in a situation which appears unprecedented in the 45-year span the series has covered. It is likely that the Stadium crowd (smallest of the season) will see a good deal of action as one of these teams finally gets rolling...
Osmanski, after much experimenting early in the fall, chose to string along with a batch of sophomores up from an excellent freshman team. However, the second-year men (there will be approximately six of them in the starting lineup) have failed to live up to expectations, although their mistakes appear to have become less conspicuous each week...
...Purple's defensive standouts are Co-Captain Tom Kelleher, a two-way end and a regular for three years, and Bill DeChard, who backs up the line. Kelleher is still nursing a knee injury; DeChard saw little action last year because of a shoulder bruise, but shone as a freshman two years...