Word: gallop
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...Funsters came back in the third period to score from the two yard line on an end run by Bob Smith. On the first play at scrimmage after the kick. Herb Greenberg. Eliot back, broke away on a run around the left end for a 70-yard touchdown gallop tying the score. The point after touchdown was blocked. The second and Dunster TD came on a three yard plunge off tackle by Lou Tsavaris...
...long gallop of this sort, nearly everyone on the defensive team gets at least one shot at the runner. This is especially true in the case of such a fairly slow man as Hansen. So, even allowing for the perfect block with which Wes Bomm took out safety man Red Wylie, one must concede that high grabs and out-flung arm tackles will not stop college backs...
...flair for failure. At nine, Rab was taken out of the little parish school and put to work on the farm. When he died at 37, it was the rheumatic heart acquired in youth not drink, that killed him. He once described his life as "an uphill gallop from the cradle to the grave...
This week in Philadelphia, 56-year-old Referee Swaffield will bind up a game left leg with twelve yards of adhesive tape, then gallop up & down Municipal Stadium for some six miles before 100,000 witnesses who will hardly even notice him. The fans will be watching the Army-Navy game and the four stripe-shirted officials will be just mobile scenery, chiefly worth attention only if they commit bloopers or get knocked down and run over by a power play...
...division's 8th Regiment dug in for the night near Unsan, 80 miles north of Pyongyang. When morning came, the few troopers who were awake could not believe their ears. Said Pfc. Henry Tapper: "Someone woke me up and asked me if I could hear horses on the gallop. I couldn't hear anything, but then bugles started playing, far away." Pfc. William O'Rama, who was sitting in a machine-gun emplacement, heard the bugles, too-"very faint like...