Three Plays - Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing by Zora Neale Hurston
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and begin to sing I COULDN'T HEAR
NOBODY PRAY. The HOWARD team charges down shouting Joshua fit de battle of Jericho. Whenever a player is tackled there is a duet of dancing. Every step is a dance. Finally the grandstand catches fire and the dancing and the shouting runs riot up there. When the ball is on Lincoln's ten-yard line, they hold Howard there by rounding up both teams into a huddle and the bunch-shout and sing to a QUICK CURTAIN.) CURTAIN LINCOLN'S PRAYER: Ah, ah, they shall not ah pass us Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord They shall not pass us, Ah-h-h-h. *[Handwritten (Jul. 21, 1931)] _"WOOFING"_ |
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