Word: brawn
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...Yale they boil their enemies in brawn. Only two of the team that started against Army are stunted under six feet. Yale's pachyderms on the line average 192, behind the line 180. This gargantuan group galloped gravely through Army 10-6, despite the sinewy protests of the most seasoned backfield outside of professional football, Captain Harry Wilson (Penn State) Cagle (Louisiana), Murrell (Minnesota). Just in time did Charles D. Curran, an editor of The Pointer, West Point journal, apologize through the Yale Daily News for an inadvertent, faintly insulting bit of optimism in The Pointer. "Yale will furnish...
...race, or any other event," the Attic sage reasons, "And what does it benefit the city? Very unfairly, indeed, is it that mere brawn is considered superior to goedly wisdom...
...denied that it has in its favor some very attractive features, at least from the point of view of those whose unfortunate duty it will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent in Paris in the summer of 1924 must indeed have been a revelation to the members of the troupe and according...
...University grapplers will go on the mat tonight for the first time this season when they pit brawn and muscle against Columbia at 8 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...which prevented their false start and thus sounded the death-knell to the flying wedge in this game, but from this start the wedge developed rapidly and was the basis for Pennsylvania's famous "guards back" offense. It was the start of a series of momentum plays which combined brawn with momentum and had to be legislated out of the game...