Word: bruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy's problem was a real oversupply of star backs. To solve it, Coach Oscar Hagberg switched Captain Dick Duden, a blocking-back bruiser, to end. Even when a scrimmage injury put Halfback George Walmsley out for the season, Coach Hagberg still wondered how his new T could best use his three remaining backfields...
...during the two years (1902, 1903) he played fullback on an oft-defeated Navy team. There are countless versions, with apocryphal trimmings, of the incident in which Halsey starred most conspicuously as "the bull." Navy was being flattened by a beefy, bulldozing V.P.I. team. A middie tackled the bruiser who was carrying the ball for V.P.I., rolled with him across the sidelines and under the bleachers. The crowd cheered the mid die, but he did not get up: thoroughly bulldozed, Bull Halsey was carried off on a stretcher...
...thought the Dragon Lady was being true to Pat. We haven't got the full details, but the absence of Rolain's name in the rag every week doesn't mean we aren't evening him with suspicion. His fans may be interested to know that Bruno "the Bruiser" Tiz has taken a fancy to hog calling in hopes of getting a date for the coming Senior Dance. Such resource fulness shall not go unrewarded...
...Bunnies of Leverett were not quite so fortunate, succumbing to Trumbull, 6 to 0. Bruiser Kennard of the Elis tossed a 20-yard aerial to left and Weirick who snagged the ball on the goal line and dropped across for the score...