Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make a good end. W. and M. has two of them. Not only do they play basketball, but Al Vandweghe and Glenn Knox are All-Conference courtmen, and will bring their ball-handling ability to the receiving end of Bud Hubard's passes. They're big, too, and can block...
With this awesome array of talent, one might think George Munger hasn't a worry in the world. But he does; constant experimentation still hasn't produced a quarterback to fill Gene Davis' shoes. In the Penn system, a quarterback must block like a fiend, call signals, and bark signals (Penn uses no huddle) in the best Demosthenesian manner. Jackie McCarthy, a Sophomore converted from end, has top rating right...
...Vern Miller, and Russ Stannard, who should be one of the stand-out linemen in the nation this year, will be the bulwarks of the emerald barrier, while acting Captain Bill Barnes and Cummings, subbing for injured Don Forte, complete the roster. Whether they can stand up under the block-busters that Sleepy Jim will hurl at them is yet to be seen...
Winter alone will not halt the Germans, nor rob them of their summer gains. (After one bitter winter in Russia the German armies came back to strike at Stalingrad and the Caucasus.) The snows which soon will block the high Caucasian passes will not block the low roads along the Black and Caspian Seas to Batum, Baku and the Middle East. Only the Red Armies in the Caucasus-so far unable to block the approaches, and soon likely to be cut off from the body of Russia-can block the roads. Winter will not sink the Germans' motor barges...
...Montreal last week men and women waited in block-long lines to apply for permits to get jobs, or to leave jobs they already had. The Canadian Government was mobilizing all the manpower of the sprawling Dominion to put its immense resources completely into the war effort...