Word: phalanxes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Training in the "Phalanx", the military unit of the college, was the only recognized physical organization and the only sport that the college sanctioned. This body was disintegrated officially in 1845, because of the convivial tendencies of its members, who seemed to regard it more as a drinking club than as a warlike organization. Kicking the football on the campus was allowed, but during most of the school year, when Hanover is covered with a blanket of snow, this sport was impossible and the isolated Hanoverians were compelled to turn their attention to less lawful means of entertainment...
High Foot was in front . That much was clear as the horses, digging inside toward the rail , formed an irregular phalanx. A few yards further on Alcibiades, the only filly in the race, passed High Foot and held the lead past the grandstand to the clubhouse turn. As they swung around the turn into the back stretch with a mile still to go, a big bay colt swung to the outside, gaining ground. It was Sande on Gallant Fox?an amazing, disdainful thing to do, for when a jockey swings outside so early in a race it shows he does...
Came the dawn and soon afterward the Negroes, strapping, ink-black Somalis. They shouldered up to the English phalanx, which did not budge. Eye to eye whites and blacks glared, job-hungry...