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Word: backing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boss, I tells you what I thinks about this here war. Germany, some back, she starts a crap game, threw an eight, then falls off. Now she wants her money back and starts grabbing. The mistake was when she first started grabbing not knocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Winthrop outplayed the Funsters all through the encounter, and was scored on only when Ed Hindle, Kicker, forget that he backed up in using his rocker kick and stepped over the back of the end zone while punting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Catapults into First; Bellboys Nose Out Leverett 2-0 | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

Bill Coleman, who in three years has traveled the traditional Harlow cycle of center to running guard to blocking back, has no overwhelming desire to return to the comparative anonymity of a lineman's life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

During a football career that dates back to the days when he played with Bobby Green, last year's Crimson grid chief, on a 130 pound team at the McDonough School in Baltimore, the versatile Senior who will captain the hockey team this winter has occupied every grid post except end and water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...rangy blocking back who is attempting to fill the shoes of Chief Boston and Cliff Wilson is sold on Harlow. "He not only knows everything there is to know about football, but he's great on psychology," Coleman says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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