Word: bump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan's hocus-pocus offense worked well enough to hurdle hardy Illinois, 14 to 7, thanks largely to nifty, shifty Halfback Bump Elliott, and a pass by Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3) that set up the game-winning touchdown...
Only two players (Halfback "Bump" Elliott and Fullback Jack Weisenburger) play on both. Thus, in effect, Crisler's first team consists of 20 men. Whenever Michigan's defensive team regains the ball, Crisler orders: "Offense unit, up and out," and nine men pour onto the field at once...
...Halfback Bob Chappuis (rhymes with happy-us†). He is Crisler's triggerman. His job is to throw the forward passes, and there is no one in 1947 collegiate football who does it better. In the Minnesota game, it was his flat, sure, 35-yd. throw to Bump Elliott that gave Michigan its first score...
Research. In Muncie, Ind., the Chamber of Commerce called a halt to its flossy preparations for a Muncie Centennial when one Dorothea Bump gave the boys a quiet nudge: the city is still only 93 years...
...most Andros natives, although they know well the little men with their pink, staring eyes, toothless mouths and flame-red beards, avert their eyes when they feel a chickcharney near by, for if you bump into one face to face your only hope is to press thumb and little finger into your palm and hold up the other three fingers. Then the chickcharney may take you for a comrade; he himself has only three fingers or three toes on each limb...