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Left halfback Gill Bamford scored Quincy's touchdown on a 21-yard run around right end midway in the first period. A 30-yard have from quarterback George Campbell to Ken Anderson set up the play...
With five first-string players on the injured list, the Crimson first and second team combination couldn't find its bearings in the opening period. Taking advantage of this initial lapse, Wesleyan scored first, midway through the period...
...reports from U.S. intelligence sources were ominous. East-West tensions had reached the snapping point. The Soviet Union was mobilizing. An air strike against the U.S. and Canada was imminent. Then, on Saturday morning, came confirmation from North American Air Defense Command radar-loaded aircraft patrolling the Pacific near Midway: enemy planes were U.S.-bound...
...Midway through the quarter Ohiri gave the crowd and the opposition a hint of things to come. Bearing down on lonely Amherst goalie Tony Scolnick, Ohiri slammed a low line-drive, missing by inches. Moments later, Harvard center-halfback Billy Ward bounced his first of two shots off the posts, and the Crimson scoring machine seemed ready to move into high goar...
...midway through the book, as the war ceases to be a game, there is a change in Aten's tone. The retreat becomes a vastly sobering experience: "the refugee trains inched and shuttled and rocketed by. We sat warm and cozy and full of hot buttered rum--and ashamed." Aten's war does not sound like cowboys and Indians any more. The second part of the book is infinitely better than the first--had each section been written immediately after the events it describes transpired, the change in style would add to an impression that Aten aged a great deal...