Word: breakaway
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Harvard led 30 to 26 with one minute to go, but could not keep possession of the ball. Jim Bennett grabbed the ball in a breakaway and sunk a beautiful field goal only seconds from the end. The game ended with Harvard in possession of the ball...
...will be able to field one of the best backfields of all time. It's useless to try and concoct new superlatives for Harmon; just try to imagine him as a combination of all the others. He is just as elusive as Dartmouth's little Ted Arice, has more breakaway speed than Torbie Macdonald had, weighs a good 190 pounds, and has the running savvy and intuition of Red Grange...
Featured performer of the trio is the irrepressible Wyer, poke-checker and rinkman extraordinary. This to Wyer's eighth consecutive year of high-class competitive hockey, and no more than makes up what he lacks in breakaway speed with finesse and experience to burn. His compatriots, Bordiey and Turner, make that first line a goalie's nightmare...
...CROSBY AND MR. MERCER (Decca,). Last June, when the genial Westwood Marching and Chowder Club (North Hollywood Branch) put on its second Breakaway Minstrel Show, the Olio was enlivened by " 'Lasses' (Molasses) Mercer and 'Chittlins' (pig or calf intestines) Crosby in an erudite analyseration of swing." The "analyseration" was sung to the music of the 1920's famed duet Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean, new words by Lyricist Mercer (Cowboy From Brooklyn, et al.). The summer's most amusing ditty gets more amusing when Crosby explains to Mercer that jazz is merely old-fashioned...
...scoring let up in the second and third periods, but two minutes along in the final frame, the Hulse-to-Willetts combination scored again. Then Hulse added another o a quick breakaway from the boards. Exeter retaliated on a drive by Dan Stuckey, Red and Gray center...