Word: buck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roscoe Fitts '23, George Owen '23, J. W. Hammond '25, and K. S. Pfaffman '24 each scored during the scrimmage. Pfaffman added an additional three points when he sent a 27-yard drop-kick neatly between the goal posts. Owen's touchdown came on a line-buck while the other three scores resulted from long end runs...
HARVARD WILLIAMS Lincoin, 3b. c.f., Buck Gordon, r.f. r.f., Bixby Conlon, s.s. s.s, O'Brien Owen 1b. 1 b., Itichmond Buell, 2b. l.f., Mongo Janin, l.f. 2b., Hoyt Hallock, c.f. 3b., Fincke Murphy, c. c., Stephenson Gehrke, p. p., Cobb or Gregory...
...Furlong showed many pictures and told many stories of famous horses and buckaroos. There was Sundown Jackson, a full-blooded Indian, who at the age of fifty won the world's rough riding championship by sticking to a fierce "outlaw" horse, "raking" him and "fanning" him at every buck, and finally riding him "out", after he had been scraped against several fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses...
...cowboys could find a boa-constrictor that bucked, they'd saddle him up for the Round-up", said Mr. Furlong, "for they try to ride any animal that has a buck in it". The worst of all are the bucking buffaloes, which no one has ever been known to stick to. Bucking bulls are the next hardest, particularly as the saddle is put as far back as possible "to get everything that's in the bull in the way of a buck, out". The most famous of these animals was Sharkey, who was black, weighted a ton and a half...
...shakes Kentucky to its foundations; fifty years hence, they will doubtless be discussing the "freedom of the knees" as vehemently as we do today. But in their rush up the intellectual field, the Colonels are starting with an enormous handicap of time; and if they really intend to "buck" the well-tried scientific line, they are likely to find themselves thrown for a decided joss...