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...variations, the ball-handling quarterback forms the stem of the T, the other three backs the top crossbar. By any name, its razzle-dazzle pattern of spinners, flankers, man-in-motion, dive-tackle plays pack a wallop that makes scores and delights the fans...
...Legged Leaper.JohannesAndries de Villiers. a 19-year-old sophomore at South Africa's Heidelberg Normal College, caused a sensation by high-jumping 5 ft. 7 in. in his first competitive try. He has no right leg. The handsome six-foot-one-incher started well back from the crossbar, hopped up momentum without his crutches, hurled himself over in a standard "western roll...
...Philadelphia tests, this amazing instrument (known as the "crossbar toll switching system") has greatly speeded up long distance telephoning and relieved wartime overcrowding of toll lines. Telephone officials expect to install the system throughout the nation as soon as equipment is available after the war. Eventually, they believe, it will be possible for a customer to dial an out-of-town call on his home or office phone. Already, in Culver City, Calif., engineers are testing an instrument which not only permits direct dialing of toll calls (within a limited area) but automatically records on a printed ticket the length...
...position in the second quarter when Leverett made their three points. After tries through the line and air failed, Brooks, who hasn't missed a point-after-touchdown for the Bunnies although he started playing fairly late in the season, came in and booted the ball well over the crossbar but barely inside the right-hand post...
...side on an oval field whose measurements are 180 yards by 120. There are two sets of goalposts at each end of the field. If the ball is kicked between the tall center posts, six points are scored : between the adjoining posts one point. There is no crossbar. American ex-footballers say the game produces the finest and most accurate kicking they've ever seen: frequently players running full speed can drop-kick the ball between goalposts from 60 yards and more...