Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koufman, Yardling right end, crashed through in the early moments of the game to block and recover an enemy punt on the 20-yard line. After three running plays had failed, Joe Gardella tossed a spot pass to Gene Lovett, who carried to the Bruin four-yard marker. Four plays netted a scanty two yards and Brown took possession of the ball, immediately kicking out of danger...
Though he does not yet know it, Artist William Edmondson's tombstones are all tattle directe. Cut directly in the stone without preliminary modeling, they are all small, because he has not yet been able to buy a sizable block. Their charm lies in the simple-hearted directness with which Sculptor Edmondson has chiseled out woolly-headed angels, rams, dumpy little preachers, lawyers and ladies with bustles...
...then sent him back out into the corridor with word that an interview would follow breakfast. Then Mr. Justice Black popped his head out in the hall to order ham & eggs; refused a pile of Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes offered by William Herman Mylander, Washington representative of the Paul Block paper, just in case Mr. Justice Black had not read the expose of his Klan activities in the paper of their origin; failed to recognize in spite of his 10 gal. hat Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle who had written the series; and retired to break his fast with Editor...
Another score seemed imminent in the third period when big A1 Kevorkian broke through the line to block Austie Harding's punt. Faulty centering and sloppy ball-carrying, however, accounted for two fumbles in a row and a lost opportunity...
...Last week the Feigenspan employe in charge of contest entries returned from his vacation, a trifle surprised at all the fuss. Before he left, he said, he had cached the Speck tuna in the Feigenspan ice plant. Forthwith, he produced the smallest tuna, frozen into a 300 lb. block of ice. However, the whole situation was altered few days later when Francis J. Lupton caught a 24-ouncer off Beach Haven...