Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coaching his first game for Navy, Wayne Hardin turned loose a winged-T attack built around the passing of Quarterback Joe Tranchini and the broken-field flair of Halfback Joe Bellino, rolled to an impressive 24-8 victory over butter-fingered Boston College, which had been rated as one of New England's best...
...World War II screen glamour boy (Kid Galahad), who won his wings as a fighter pilot (57 missions, seven kills, Distinguished Flying Cross) in the Pacific in World War II, returned to a series of B-grade films, recently made a comeback on TV; of a heart attack, while visiting his old squadron commander, Captain David McCampbell, top U.S. Navy ace in World War II, aboard the carrier Bon Homme Richard; at Oakland. Calif...
...first two teams showed a steady running attack for three periods, building up a 36-0 lead. Then the substitutes got some badly needed experience against a team that last week staged a dramatic, second-half rally...
...varsity easily stopped the Williams running attack. Three sophomores, center Tony Watters, guard Bill Swinford, and fullback Chuck Reed, tackled hard and often. Reed also intercepted an astray Williams pass and ran effectively on offense. Big Chet Boulris showed bursts of power and speed that would carry him five yards with two tacklers hanging on grimly; he scored the Crimson's third touchdown on a dive through left tackle midway through the second period...
...most characteristic and striking manifestation of his political independence came in a motion suggesting impeachment of President Jefferson. His unexpected attack upon the President evidently created a great sensation in Washington. Representatives bobbed up, violently censuring Quincy for his resolution, and when the vote came, only the name of Josiah Quincy favored the affirmative. Nearly 50 years later, Quincy looked back on this episode: "No public exertion of mine has been more fully justified by the reflections of a long life," he wrote. His defiance of the President, of Congress, and of public opinion fitted in well with his independent...