Word: crossbuck
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...scholarly, Harvard's Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports convened in Cambridge to consider the portentous fact that in six years under Head Coach Lloyd Jordan, 56, the Crimson football team has won only 24 games while losing 31 and tying three. Few men in the room knew a crossbuck from an Eliot House chambermaid. Only Associate Dean Robert Blake Watson had had direct contact with the game (as a scrub on the 1936 squad which won 3, lost four). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and medieval history...
...scholarly, Harvard's Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports convened in Cambridge to consider the portentous fact that in six years under Head Coach Lloyd Jordan, 56, the Crimson football team has won only 24 games while losing 31 and tying three. Few men in the room knew a crossbuck from an Eliot House chambermaid. Only Associate Dean Robert Blake Watson had had direct contact with the game (as a scrub on the 1936 squad which won 3, lost 4). The rest of the committee included four Ph.D.s (a Russian-born chemist plus professors of Greek literature, economics and Medieval...
...side, with the quarterback back in receiving position. On practically every play he actually receives the ball, though on a great many he does not rush. One of the favorite plays from this position found one of the interfering halfbacks receiving the ball from the quarterback on a simple crossbuck and diving into the strong side of the line. The play wasn't as a rule very effective against Dartmouth but it affords a contrast to the usual straight run and might be a real weapon if used at less frequent intervals. With Booth at quarterback, however, the chief ground...
...hardest fought games to be played this season on the class team field, the Seniors overcame the Sophomores by the score of 6-0 yesterday, when John Mongam '29, Senior end, found himself on the receiving end of a Sophomore crossbuck and ran ninety yards for a touchdown with the ball handed him by the opposing halfback...
...punt after Leary had thrown Mt. Pleasant for a four yard loss on a fake kick. Foster ran back to the centre of the field after Brill and netted 14 yards in three rushes, steady gains carried the ball down the field and Leonard made the touchdown on a crossbuck from the 8-yard line, Wendell giving him good support. White kicked the goal...
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