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According to Goodenough, Clasby received non-gentle and non-accidental flats in the face once in the second period and twice in the third, each time in a pile-up after the whistle had blown. Clasby, outstanding performer for the Crimson, was also well worked over by Dartmouth two weeks earlier--once slugged flagrantly and illegally, but several other times simply ground into the turf after a legal tackle...
...process of preparing for the Big Weekend. On football week-ends, the halls of the Annex are quiet and foreboding. With a rough one to five ratio, a 'Cliffedweller can pick her pet from the pile...
From the quiet, hardly obtrusive pile of Gothic buildings known as Princeton that squat on the New Jersey plains, have issued since its founding in 1746, men who have made the World shake, applaud, and learn. The university has produced men that made the country in which it is situated free, and shaped its growth...
Adams back Duncan Stevens had his leg broken in a pile-up. He was rushed to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In another scrimmage tussle Dunster lineman Fred Koch appeared to have broken his neck. Teammates carried Koch from the field on a stretcher, but doctors at Dillon Field House said the injury was only a non-serious muscle pull...
...picture hits the line too hard. As a poor, first-generation American hungering for education, glory, and acceptance in the uppercrust world typified by Jackson College, Halfback Derek gets buried in such a pile-up of broken illusions that the movie looks like a put-up job. Football brings him fleeting glory, leaves him no time to study, wins him only the snooty tolerance of Jackson's aristocrats and (until the fadeout) the well-born girl (Donna Reed) he loves. It crushes his body and his self-respect to feed the ambitions of a string-pulling alumnus (Sidney Blackmer...