Word: controll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Control kicking" is football's newest touchdown trick and the most "revolutionary development in the game since the birth of the forward pass" according to Franny Murray, gridiron star, who gives the details of coffin corner kicking today in an article in the Saturday Evening Post...
...Once coaches stop treating kicking as football's stepchild, control will be commonplace" the article says...
...Mills had no secret formula. Everything he worked out could be discovered by an alert coach. He had what most of them lack--real enthusiasm for punting. Of course control has always been sought. Stagg, Yost, Percy Haughton of Harvard, all were aware of the importance of kicking. Mills' contribution was scientific. What he was after and what he perfected was the return-proof kick," Murray claims...
...Deny that rumor! He was in excellent health. He would be home in a month to see about this. Armour stockholders were set to wondering whether this January there would be another meeting as rowdy as that famous one in 1934 when Prince, who had bought up effective (5%) control of the stock, first landed the chairmanship...
Near Oklahoma City, Okla., a truck rolled downhill out of control, snapped off a pole bearing a high-voltage wire, which fell across a metal sign, which touched a barbed wire fence, which set fire to a patch of grass, on which Farmer R. M. W. Cody threw a pail of water, which splashed on the electrified fence, electrocuting Farmer Cody...