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Word: blockers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Isenberg saw very little action on offense last season and none this year. A vicious tackler on defense, and a capable runner and blocker, he will probably play a great deal as offensive quarterback next fall, Valpey said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isenberg Chosen Football Captain; Davis Gets 'Most Valuable' Award | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

...chief scout, Sincere S. Hocanbe, reports that the Hanover Hooligans use a tight V-formation, with a blocker on each side," said Fiend, the Crime's chief plunger. "We're going to work on all the angles, however, and perhaps we can open up their defenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Reveals?-Formation Today | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

...Choo Charlie went to town. He set up a touchdown with a series of bullet passes, and lugged the ball around right end for the score. He plowed through the middle for 14 yards and another touchdown. He relied on cutbacks and shiftiness rather than sheer speed. Said one blocker: "It's easy to block for Charlie, because he sets up the blocks." Choo Choo had an uncanny photographic eye that enabled him to get a quick picture of a broken field defense. He accounted for Carolina's third and game-winning touchdown by taking a punt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Jack Rabbit of Chapel Hill | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Shock Treatment. In Hammond, Ind., Ted Blocker took a look at the size of his dinner check, staggered, fell through the cafe's plate-glass window, got a quickly revised bill showing an extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Spear, whose utterances were new greeted as those of a farm blocker nominating the favorite son at a Republican national convention, managed to get across that "Captain Vince" Moravec tried hard to get there but couldn...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Sutlers, Gamins, Flatfoots Join Havoc Cry for Tiger's Blood | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

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