Word: spheroidal
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...Horsemen" contribute toward the creation of a genuine athletic atmosphere. It was inevitable that there should be occasional slips into the sentimental, but these were few, and the impression received was an almost literal one of a phase of college life which has for an emblem the brown oblate spheroid...
Stewart, substituting for McNear in the Princeton skirmish line, got the ball near midfield in the third period, and dodging several Crimson defense men, dribbled the spheroid down the sideline, and suddenly sent a aizzling shot at an acute angle that skidded past Thomas and into the Harvard not for the second Tiger score. Stewart later, in the fourth quarter, scored form a free kick, after Crooks had fouled by failing on the ball...
...drove a straight, low ball over the fairway. The sight of this small, white object skimming over the grass and then bumping its way along attracted the attention of a neighboring bear which promptly gave chase. Along the fairway galloped the bear, both beady eyes fixed upon the white spheroid rollicking on ahead...
...signalled to the pitcher and once more the spheroid flew...
...first hove into the public eye, Tolley has been touted as a merry, garrulous, quip-cracking links-wit. Tales are told of his Oxford days when, in postprandial exuberance, he would harangue a blithe gathering in his rooms upon his years of study at the science of propelling a spheroid. He would then tee a ball on the carpet and drive it smashing through a closet panel. Another feat was to loft balls from the lawn of University College to the sward of Queen's College over the walls and across "the High." A servant would then call at Queens...