Word: ricochet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amateur. Not one, but three, may raise their heads and walk proudly among the colleges. There is little fear that the major ills of which the Carnegie report treats will become epidemic. They have long been rampant, and the cycle points downward. Misapprehension that the frontier football spirit will ricochet back to the Eastern seaboard is not so much the belief of intelligent students of the game, as that the Eastern attitude may soon go West. The trail has already been blazed, and while older institutions of higher learning continue to rigidly interpret the amateur code for the hopeful edification...
Before the national doubles tournament started last week in Brookline, Mass., most observers were ready to agree that the two best doubles players in the U. S. were probably a pair of Frenchmen. There was Henri ("Ricochet") Cochet and his excitable partner, Jacques Brugnon, champions of France and winners last June at Wimbledon. There was Jean René Lacoste and Jean Borotra, the "Bounding Basque." None of the U. S. players looked very strong; William T. Tilden, of course-but then Tilden never takes doubles literally. He prefers to play with some youth who, overcome at the honor of being...