Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second semi-final arguments on November 18 will be judged by Hon. L. C. Crouch, of the Appellate division of the Supreme Court of New York, Hon. J. L. Allread of the Court of Appeals of Ohio, and Hon. T. D. Thacher, United States District Judge for New York...
...Time changes. Attacking teams are limited to 30 seconds between plays (eliminating "stalling" when a team is ahead in the last quarter). Attacking teams may crouch in a "huddle" only 15 seconds giving signals. Shift plays are prohibited unless the attacking team stops a full second between the players, shift and the snapping of the ball from centre. Violation of the 15-second "huddle" rule costs five yards; violation of the one second shift rule, 15 yards...
Interference (knocking another man down without using the hands) is bumpy work; smashing opposing line men from the crouch brings bruises, bloody noses. Football practice...
...became stone deaf. As his hearing dwindled, his conducting, which he would not give up, became more and more ludicrous. He would bend over his keys to hear what he played until his orchestra quite lost sight of him. At the crescendoes he could and would straighten up, crouch up, stand up, finally leap up off the floor itself in passionate release...
...gunpowder, what chance has the poor pard, the feeble tiger, the defenseless lion? Lords once of the jungle, they are driven ever back into their forests, away from the soft fat flesh of the deer. But go where they will, gunpowder follows relentlessly until, at last, cornered, they turn, crouch, roar terribly, and leap-into bullets of death-dealing steel. Is this justice, is this sportmanship...