Word: bootleged
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Mechling took over at quarterback for the touchdown drive, and turned in its biggest play himself, a seven-yard bootleg for a first down. Dockery scored moments later on a five-yard dash off left tackle...
...Taylor's checking account. But. as Eugenia Lassater recalls, she was "stingy." She still wore Aunt Effie's old coat around campus. But her social life picked up a little. She learned to dance the Louisiana Stomp and acquired at least a sipping acquaintance with bootleg cherry wine. When she graduated in 1934, she had degrees in liberal arts and journalism...
...Quints scored on the third play from scrimmage when Skip Falcone connected with end Jim Rome on a bootleg pass play covering 60 yards. The Deacons countered with a safety later in the period, but their defeat was sealed on the last play of the half when fullback Chuck Stuckey, mainstay of the Deacon running attack, was knocked unconscious by a host of Quincy tacklers...
Against archrival Elder High, Roger crossed up the defense by tucking the ball under his arm on a bootleg and sprinting 60 yds. down the sidelines to a touchdown. College scholarship offers poured in from 30 schools. According to Roger's mother, Ohio State's Woody Hayes "must have spent a fortune in telephone calls." But the one college Roger himself yearned to attend fumbled the ball. Notre Dame gave him the polite brushoff, and when the Navy recruiters persisted with their "What you can do for your country" line, Roger signed up for Annapolis. "I decided...
Oneida (pop. 500) and Sheppton (pop. 1,100) are bleak little towns about a mile apart in the worked-out anthracite fields of eastern Pennsylvania. The women age fast while their men scrabble for a living in bootleg mines-tiny, independent operations that ignore rigid safety standards. From one such mine, dug into the side of the hill that separates Oneida and Sheppton, two men were rescued last week after nearly 14 incredible days of imprisonment beneath the earth's surface...