Word: downpours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told-you-so's were voiced when May 7 rolled around and no erecting had yet begun. Bad weather provided an almost constant impediment, to say nothing of a couple of serious mishaps. Three days before the scheduled opening a downpour was still able to drench everything and everybody; certain facets of the construction were eleven days behind; and the actors had not yet even tested the stage. Failure seemed assured. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers were still operating and workmen were still driving stakes. But at eight o'clock the Governor and other prominent citizens arrived...
...minute downpour only settled the dust on the infield and affected neither Johnson's control nor the Crimson's attack...
Yesterday's contest was one of the wackiest affairs seen at Soldiers Field in quite some time. The Crimson had amassed a 9-0 lead, when a savage downpour practically washed the players off the field. The game was, at the time, in the top of the fifth inning and only three outs shy of being "official." It will be replayed, if possible, some time within the next week...
...order to cast much weight in the Ivy League this year.Mud and tacklers are this runner's problems as he sweeps around Buffalo's left end in one of Saturday's unsuccessful drives for a touchdown. As a stadium crowd of 6,000 looked on in alternating drizzle and downpour, Buffalo's Nick Bottini blocked a punt by Bruce Maclntyre on the Harvard 2, pounced on the ball, and rolled to an easy touchdown. Despite a last-minute drive to the Bull's goal line, the Crimson lost 6 to 3, giving the visitors revenge for a 66-0 drubbing...
Through all the downpour, Hill and Gendebein and their Ferrari managed to stay out of trouble, and slowly they worked into the lead. At the end, none of the competition was really close. Hill finished the race after covering 2,549 miles in 24 hours at an average speed of 106.21 m.p.h. He had beaten the second-place Aston Martin by 100 miles. If the worst weather and the worst track conditions in the memory of Le Mans veterans had kept him from a speed record, Phil Hill had still set a record with which he was more than satisfied...