Word: brawn
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...game of football would be improved vastly if the captain were to have the entire responsibility for the management of his team when engaged in contest. This idea is not a new one. The arguments that this ruling would make the game not merely a contest of the brawn and physical skill of the two teams, but also a contest between their brains, seems to hold a certain amount of water. No doubt competitive athletics conducted on this plan would approach more nearly the ideal set by English ideas of sport, in an informal cricket contest where play is interrupted...
...Brawn is the product made from chopped or ground and cooked edible parts of swine, chiefly from the head, feet, and/or legs, with or without the chopped or ground tongue...
Head cheese, mock brawn, differs from brawn in that other meat and/or meat by-products are substituted, in whole or in part, for corresponding parts derived from swine...
...What Cabinet officer protects the prudent housekeeper from "scrapple," "brawn," "souse...
...Svenska brawn with a girl's face on its wishbone...