Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Verbruggen is proved right, that will make the game unusual, if not here, at least in the U.S. in general. Injuries-the annual toll of broken bones, torn ligaments, concussion and, occasionally, paralysis or death-are football's current shame. This fall, a million high school boys will be injured playing football. Most will suffer minor muscle pulls; others will walk the rest of their lives on aching knees. A few will die. While Pleasant Valley and Palmerton are playing in Pennsylvania, a 16-year-old boy in Oklahoma dies of head injuries en route to the hospital during...
...coaches spot trouble and call Verbruggen. "I get tremendous cooperation from the coaches. Sometimes they don't let a kid play even after I think he's fit. I agreed to be team physician on the condition that my word was final in keeping a boy out. But I never expected to have trouble getting...
...glamor boy of the Crimson eleven in the mid-1930s was fullback Vernon Struck, who back then took the snap from center. Struck's sleight-of-hand with the pigskin earned him the sonorous sobriquet of "The Magnificent Faker." "Struck would fake you right out of the stadium," Cavileer recalls. "One day I ran into Dick Bennick, who was a manager back in 1930 and he said: 'I sit with my friends back in the end zone and I don't have any problems seeing the ball but I never could follow the plays when old Struck was around...
...wouldn't be your All-American boy football type," the 5-ft., 10-in., 175-lb. cornerback says. Yet there is no doubt he is more serious about his football and about being the captain right now than about anything else...
...YEAR-OLD BOY sitting deep in the endzone stained the blue felt of his Yale pennant with tears of disbelief. Brain Dowling called it "the only game I ever lost at Yale." John Yovicsin said he never gave up on his team, while some players noted he had virtually conceded in the lockerroom at halftime. The Harvard Crimson held off the "Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29" headline until the Monday edition. The Saturday extra after the game was curt--. "Harvard, Yale Draw...