Word: balled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always done that the season's first game.--True, little Amherst was strong this year--he was vagly afraid--. Ah, but the Crimson was stronger. Eleven men,--and more. Eleven men, and Vag. Unbeatable! He recalled with pride on thrilling fall afternoon: a crimson-clad figure with the ball, a purple and white jersey almost on him; then a long, clear yell rising out of the confusion of sound, spurring him on past the purple and white to the goal line. Vag had given that yell. He would give many more today...
Left tackle Charley Smythe is the heart and soul of the line, and Bob Blood stands head and shoulders above any other back. Blood is a threat every time he lays his hands on the ball. Coach Jordan used his best men only sparingly against Hobart and had the satisfaction of seeing them come out of the game without a single injury. Barring practice session accidents this week, Amherst will be at full strength for the Harlowmen...
...different in professional ball," he claims. "In college baseball you have to face a good pitcher only once in a while. In professional you're up against a good man every day a man who's being paid to go out there...
Dance, Girl, Dance (RKO Radio) solemnly relates a jumbled account of the trials & tribulations borne by pretty showgirls. A well-turned strip-teaseuse (Lucille Ball) rooms with an earnest, apple-cheeked ballerina (Maureen O'Hara). Lucille wants money, Maureen success. Lucille winds up draped in furs and sparkling gewgaws but with no suggestion of purity. Maureen winds up with a job in the American Ballet after teary, trying weeks capering to the jibes of burlesque fans. Contrary to all Hollywood tradition, neither winds up with a man when the alcoholic playboy they both want (Louis Hay ward) is dragged...
Ulysses "Lupe" Lupien, '39 Crimson diamond leader, threatens to give Harvard its first major league ball player since Charley Devene. After two seasons in the minors with Scranten and Little Rock, both Boston Red Sox farm clubs, Lupien has been called up to the parent organization for the closing games of the year...