Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot block downfield or throw a forward pass. When a back is tackled, he must release the ball so it can be put back in play by the nearest man. Playing for Brasenose College before a handful of fans scattered through bare wooden stands, Dawkins at first pulled a tyro's gaffes. He kept up a steady stream of American-style pepper talk until he learned that tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement. On defense, his jarring, head-on football tackles flattened any opposing player he seemed to suspect of having the ball, having...
...only four games for Brasenose, Dawkins had developed enough to draw an occasional and modulated "Well done, Peter," from fellow players, was promoted to the Greyhounds, Oxford's second team, and started against Sandhurst, Britain's West Point. Playing right-wing three-quarter back, Dawkins scored the first try for his team by neatly sidestepping five desperate tackles, ended the game with six of the Greyhounds' points in their 29-3 triumph...
Last week Dawkins was promoted to Oxford's first team to play against Blackheath, one of Britain's top teams. Treating Blackheath as though it were Navy, Dawkins crashed home on two tries in Oxford's 36-0 victory. Hoisting a friendly pint of stout with his opponents after the game ("Something we unfortunately don't have in American football"), Dawkins had no illusions that he had yet nailed down a berth on the Oxford team that will play Cambridge. Said he modestly: "I am just getting past the stage where I'm getting used...
...craft, which allows goalies mattresses of protection around their body and legs, but nothing over their faces to protect them from a hard-rubber puck driven at speeds up to 100 m.p.h. Result: pro goalies regularly contract what the trade calls "rubber shock" (defined by one player as "first cousin to shell shock"), have even skated off the ice bewildered during championship games. Over the years, Plante had faced up to the attack without flinching, and paid the price: broken nose, hairline fracture of the skull, cracks in both cheekbones, some 150 stitches for assorted gashes, from sticks and skates...
Last week they had their answer, were talking about getting masks of their own. Plante fashioned his first shutout of the season by blanking the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-0, had allowed only five goals in five games (v. 28 in twelve pre-mask games), was a major reason for the Canadiens' long lead in the N.H.L. Said Plante: "When I first put on the mask, the boys all told me I would scare the women. They wouldn't come to see the games any more. I'll tell you something: if I went...