Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field, the tackle coach is instructing eleven tackles in the refinements of "forearm shivers." At the other end, twelve brutish guards are doing "duck walks." Nine T-formation quarterbacks, never far from the centers, are working on a half-dozen different types of pivot-the crossover, reverse, reverse-deep, hop-around, slice and crossfire...
Basic B.R.T. This season, beefy tackles and flashy halfbacks, fresh out of G.I. uniform, are three-deep on many a campus -often on different campuses from the ones they trod before the war. The traffic in talented footballers is greater by far than in 1929, when the Carnegie Report let go a blast at professionalism in college athletics...
Flowers & Candy. In the Big Ten Conference, the alleged angel of angels was a do-or-die Iowa alumnus, war-rich from the deep-freeze business and completely fed up with seeing the old school ploughed under. The Big Ten's front office denied any knowledge whatsoever of professionalism. The more it said, the more certain it appeared that there were at least 30 or 40 fully accredited angels at work. Stars of far less lustre than Illinois' Buddy ("Black Magic") Young were reportedly getting $2,500 to $5,000. Rumored top for headliners...
...Words. What gave the British their solidest satisfaction was a ruling of the Fund governors on the meaning of "fundamental disequilibrium," a gobbledygook economic cruncher imbedded deep in the Bretton Woods charter...
...With a deep sigh of relief...