Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roche also did some punting. Roche may get plenty of competition tomorrow afternoon from second-string Grusader fullback Johnny Reader, a 23-year-old junior. Butch Kissell's replacement is the number two punter in the East, behind Yale's "Snowwhite," Levi Jackson. He has averaged 40 yards a boot this fall...
Controlling the ball while the Indians fought back with their usual boot-run-and-tackle system, the Crimson scored once in the first period, once in the third, and twice in the final stanza to score its fourth straight shutout. Although the game was rough and frequently interrupted by penalties, both teams emerged from the melee without serious injuries...
...dead. Alvey crept on around the plane picking up candy bars. He had bought twelve Hershey's and twelve Oh Henrys at Casper and had 20 of them left. He also had three packages of cigarettes, and a cigarette lighter. He built a fire, cut the brown cowboy boot off his swollen ankle, and leaned back to wait for a rescue party...
McGiffert handled the ball on all the plays, using deceptive pitch-outs to a slicing wing and short passes over the center. He heaved to Troup Wilder for the first touchdown and set up the second with a twenty-five yard boot-leg around right end. George Galphin carried over on the next play from the one-yard line...
...never leaves the West Point area from his arrival in July for "Beast Barracks"--the two months disciplining period before courses begin--until the end of his first year the following June. His personal rights and privileges are more limited than any buck private's in boot camp, and his work week, even by the Academy's presumably conservative estimate, is calculated to take 72 hours of his time. For the right to these dubious advantages, he must first undergo a complete mental and physical check-up which may reject him for such various causes as facial ugliness or unfilled...