Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Menominee, Mich., one Oscar Lebouf sighted through underbrush, squeezed his rifle-trigger, went crashing through the bushes after his bullet. Still twitching on the ground lay a buck deer. "Sapristi!" muttered Mr. Lebouf. "She sure ees one fine head of horns. By gar, I feex him, queeck!" Forgetting his gun he fumbled in his pocket for his shipping license, whipped it out, tied it to a horn. "Sac' bleu, no man can come an' take heem now," whispered Mr. Lebouf. He proudly examined the body to see where' his bullet had struck. Tickled back to consciousness...
Notre Dame against the Army, fancy football against buck-and-duck, nine first downs to seven, 207 yards gained to 127, Chris Flanagan against All-American Harry Wilson, Knute Rockne against the pride and bulwark of the nation, Notre Dame, 7; Army...
...wall held momentarily, but the interrupted drive was resumed, with Hitch worming his way through holes in the Eli line to tear off large gains, and Holbrook starring with his dodging of tacklers in an open field. Hitch finally bolted over the last white line on a short line buck. The try-for-point failed...
...winners scored in the first quarter when a Standish back fumbled, and was tackled behind his own goal line for a safety. A five-yard buck by Oettinger, Smith quarterback, after a sustained of fense, produced a touchdown in the second period, while Hardy, playing at half-back, got away on a thirty-yard run for Smith's last score in the third quarter...
...Pass the buck! (Repeat...