Word: bet
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bull Dog had the weight and it had the fight, but that was all. It had nothing but the battering ram style of play of the early nineties, which is helpless against the defense--of a modern team. Kempton, who had hitherto been regarded as Yale's best bet, showed little and neither Lay not Neville was a match for Garrity or Strubing...
...time. The goal umpires have not yet been selected from the list of 5000 applicants. Every thing considered, the game promises much, and tomorrow that old time favorite "the fool who rocked the boat" will have a first class sidekicker in the modern exponent of vacuum "the man who bet on the Lampoon...
...Nichols said it was hard to deal directly with summer baseball on account of the indirect way in which a player often received his recompense. He mentioned instances of a boy jumping over a bat for a bet of $50 with the manager of a baseball team, or of tending a soda fountain at a summer hotel for half an hour a day at $50 a week. He could see no objections to a bona fide resident playing with a summer nine provided he received no compensation either direct or indirect...
...features of the game were Brown's hit on a soda bet and Curtis's slashing drive which bounded off Greeley's neck. In sliding for third he undermined. Fenn, catapulting him into the air, but little Roger came out on top in the end. Dunbar deserted the "sheet" and the crafty editorial-writer scooped up some pretty grounders making but one error on an attempt at a football catch...
...your behest. And Carmen, gentle creature, So full of winning ways, Our donkey and our mascot Will great your ardent gaze. It is her first appearance, Come cheer her loud and strong. She'll be on the stage in the baseball cage, And you can bet she'll be all the rage When she sings her siren song And don't forget to buy your hats On sale from nine to one. In Thayer Hall three you'll find they'll be They're white and green and awfully squee For twenty and worth the mon. And also seven...