Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks, because the Gold Coasters have an array of stellar backs, who can pass well, run like fiends, and block hard behind a far-better-than-average House line. Outstanding in the heaving department is Kieran Culliton, whose passes to ends Dick Craig and George Kuhn, or to backfieldmate Bob Hurley are all too familiar to Crimson House players...
These two tried-&-true shows, excellent by themselves, together make up a sapless hybrid. Particular stumbling block is The Guardsman's plot: the predicament of an actor who, to satisfy his wife's yearning for amorous adventure and to satisfy himself that she is faithful to him, dresses up in the uniform of a guardsman and tries, hoping he will fail, to cuckold himself. The demands of this ticklish situation (used by M.G.M. with minor changes) are simply beyond the histrionic capacities of the picture's two principals: wholesome, husky Risöe (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens...
...highly secret" ammunition had already gone to work on U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. Speculation centered on depth charges: this was perhaps a depth charge as correspondingly powerful as Britain's much vaunted superbomb (which, it is claimed, can level a whole city block of four-story stone buildings). Whatever it was, it remained, last week, just "stuff...
Kiev. Said a German officer: "We hesitated to turn on electricity for fear of throwing switches that would set off mines, so electrical service was restored gradually, one block at a time. Some were fixed to explode when electricity was turned on; others when radio transmission started...
...reversed center has certain advantages: 1) the center can flip accurately to any of four backs; 2) for this reason, ballcarriers can get into the open faster; 3) guards do not have to be pulled out of the line to block inasmuch as the center can easily go back to do so. Baffling its foes with Solem's Y, Syracuse has won four out of five games this season. Referees have tried but failed to find anything in the rule book that can force Solem to turn his center around...