Word: duck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...injury. In slow, progressive steps, they worked kinks out of their necks and backs. A perfunctory round of jumping-jack hops is the only recognizable survivor from football calisthenics past. "The wrong kind of exercise can cause injury," Verbruggen notes. "Deep knee bends alone are all right, but those duck-walks you always see teams doing will tear more cartilage in the knee than any game...
Though the Yalies struggled gamely, The Crimson's well-refreshed team overpowered their opponents with a dazzling display of strategy and skill. Francis J. Connolly '79, the lame duck quarterback, scrambled 95 yards for a magnificent touchdown to put The Crimson in the lead...
...Milt Holt darting left with the winning touchdown as the clock all but expires. THE GAME does not imply the contest we are about to recall, the 100th anniversary of the Harvard-Yale tong war, the meeting which was decided when Lynch made a football look like a wobbly duck yet still got it to travel the required 26 yards up and barely over the goal posts...
...meantime, Bellotti remains silent. A scrappy veteran of past political wars, he's shedding Weld's accusations like a duck sheds water. He has labeled many of Weld's claims as lies, and accuses Weld of running a smear campaign against him. Unfortunately for Bellotti, the facts support Weld. Weld has been careful to stress the factual, verifiable basis for his broader insinuation that Bellotti is not tough enough on white-collar crime and political corruption. So far, Bellotti has yet to change his tactics. However, Weld is making an impact. Newspapers across the state have been listening to Weld...
Princeton took a 7-0 lead 13 minutes into the game when their gifted new quarterback, Steve Reynolds, threw a wounded duck down the left sidelines to tailback Cris Crissy, who discoed into the endzone past two stumbling Harvard defenders...