Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Roper at Princeton followed the Notre Dame example Saturday and started an entire team of second-string play- ers against Amherst. The Tigers' substitute backfield did not do as well as expected, and the score at the end of the first half stood 0 to 0. In the last two periods Princeton, with Slagle starring, scored three touchdowns against their plucky opponents. Forward passing, with Slagle doing most of the tossing, was the feature of the Orange and Black attack. Of nine passes thrown, seven were completed. The Princeton line was not quite as adamant as those of Harvard...
...meet another, St. John's. The purple is looking ahead already to the Harvard contest, October 17, and will use many substitutes in this afternoon's encounter. Like Yale, Holy Cross has an abundance of first-class backfield material,, Glennon, a star two seasons ago, now ranking as third-string halfback...
...minute undulations as if it ran on tiptoes, then pirouetted sharply with a flash of light like a little cry, while the sunbeam gravely lighted a ballet dancer. And always that strange sound accompanied the dance?a sound pleasant and terrifying, like the reverberation of an enormouse cello-string. But it was more, it was increditable, that sound. ... as if the god Pan were snoring...
...being First Marshal of his class, gained highest athletic and scholastic honors while in college. He received 16 A's and a B, and was First Marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa. In addition he was President of the Student Council, captain of the track team, and a first string guard on the football team for three years...
...kiss him good morning, Jim trembled to see her French blood fast rounding and ripening her into a woman. The city agreed with Mr. Fippany, too. Long a jaunty gambler, he pulled his hat devilishly over one brown eye and drove about the city, his two mules and a string of ravishing bells marking him for no ordinary junk dealer. He compassed a great coup with 317 second-hand bath-tubs, became a wholesale bargain man with a Long Island City warehouse, and his slogan was known to all the city: "Fippany for Any Old Thing...