Word: gaff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final game, when he earned a starting role. In spring training, when Caldwell first got a good look at him, he figured that Kaz was too light for varsity football. Not until the Rutgers* game, his sophomore year, did Kazmaier demonstrate that he was tough enough to stand the gaff. "From then on," recalls Coach Caldwell, "I knew we had something." And from then on, Dick was a starting regular...
Princeton's Specialty. Princeton Coach Charley Caldwell, 1950 coach-of-the-year and likely to be the coach of 1951, is frank to admit that, as a 155-lb. freshman, Kazmaier simply looked too frail to stand the gaff of big-time football. (Last week, a senior, he weighed 171.) "But," says Caldwell, "I never saw a player of such intensity, with such determination for perfection. He drives himself so hard that he carries the rest of the team with...
...were an oddly assorted group ranging from pink-coated riders to gallused mountaineers. The uneatables were the sly red foxes that abound in the region. The full pursuit was a well-organized chase, not necessarily to catch the fox, but to find out which hound could best stand the gaff of the rugged, three-day test...
Rods, Reels & Waders. In addition to a comprehensive river-by-river and lake-by-lake inventory of Canadian and U.S. fish, Fishing is full of information on everything from rods, reels and waders to gaff hooks, bait boxes and barometers...
...Troubador" will leave Newport with the fleet Thursday, June 18, and is expected back July 2; average time for the distance is six days. Built in 1926 and owned by Henry Baay, Inc. of Marblehead, the "Troubador" with her gaff schooner rig, will hold her own better off the wind either running or reaching than she will tacking...