Word: runners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French is a fine all-around player and a fast runner, but he goes down easier than Guarnaccia when he is tackled. I might add that your backfield combination will show up well against any team it meets this season...
...Gilligan is an elusive runner, a good drop-kicker and fine on the receiving end of passes. He seems to be in need of playing experience, however, before he can be rated a finished triple threat...
...shoe-string." The decisive vote is the "floating" vote which can be polled only by distributing, or allowing to be distributed, money for the precinct organizers. The money does not actually "buy votes." It is paid to venal "runners" or "workers" on Election Day to fetch their relatives to vote. Estimating that there are 150,000 precincts in the U. S., each averaging 400 voters of whom perhaps two-thirds vote, Mr. Kent reckons that that party wins which has the money to employ ten "runners" per precinct at $5 or $10 for the day. Each "runner" fetches about...
...this year's Crimson team, will put the shot. S. H. Martin 1L., former Dartmouth half-miler and a member of the B. A. A. relay team which holds the world record for two miles, will take part in the 800-metre run, while Macaulay Smith 1L., Yale distance runner, is an entrant for the 5000-metre grind...
That beautiful magazine, The Sportsman, which is impeccable in taste and sportsmanship, printed Runner Paddock's remarks in its June issue. Editor Richard E. Danielson made the following comment...