Word: quarterbacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quarterback Oakes took the ball, faded back, and sent a forty-yard pass into the air. Bob Stuart, fastest Harlow back, had only the safety man to boat. The pass went just out of reach of that Nassau safety man, and Stuart clutched it, juggled it for a second, as he nestled it in his arms, and crossed the goal line standing up. Russ Allen was called back from the line to boot the ball squarely between the uprights to tie the game and put Harvard football where it belonged...
...political quarterback Franklin Roosevelt returned on the U.S.S. Houston last weekend toward his "humiture"-ridden, politically fermenting country, he could have added up his political score, based on the week's primary elections in six States, about as follows: Kentucky-an all-important, extremely satisfying New Deal touchdown in the renomination of Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the Senate...
...game of war it is customary for combatants to assert that their own plays are God-guided, that the opposition's quarterback is the Devil. Last week, when diabolical forces of nature-rains & flood -washed out those of man in central China, the ground was no sooner covered with muddy water than the air was filled with mutual recriminations...
...kickers were on the injured list, and this meant that Campbell, the little halfback, had to kick, though he had never before kicked in a game. Gardiner, the tackle, broke his arm in the first five minutes, then Potter wrenched his knee, an a little later Gardner at quarterback was hit in the head. Harvard was a crippled and defeated team. When this team met Yale a few weeks later, there had been all kinds of changes made. It was a manufactured team. How, we did as well as we did against Yale I do not know...
After undergoing an emergency operation for a ruptured appendix, Chief Boston, Varsity quarterback for two seasons, is reported as "very sick" and his condition listed as "fair" in the Baker Memorial Hospital last night...