Word: headguard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dodging them, how to throw forward passes that sometimes travel 60 yd. Stocky, black-haired, grey-eyed, McEver wears a helmet that always falls off. Tennessee footballers remember only once when he took time out-on a rainy day, when his trousers fell off as well as his headguard. Left end Merlon Derry-berry of Columbus, Tenn. has the highest scholastic average of any Tennessee student for the last three years, has earned his scholarship every year. Younger than many footballers (20) he is likely to follow his brother Everett to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship next year. Younger than...
...Woodworth had with him his sweater with the varsity "N" (Northwestern) on it. That might bring him luck. It had in football. He never wore a headguard but he never got hurt. Knute Rockne of Notre Dame had respected the Northwestern team, called Woodworth one of the greatest guards in the country. But outboard motor racing is different from football; the whole thing depends on your engine more than yourself. No use fooling with your gas on a race as long as this; leaded or etherized gas has speed but lacks power, and Woodworth needed power to make the light...
...your former jobs you always had a title and a diplomatic uniform of sorts, I cannot give you a title but I am sending you a uniform by express." Two days later Chairman Fletcher received a large box from A. G. Spalding & Bros, from which he extracted a football headguard, a catcher's mask, a chest protector, shin guards, a metal athletic supporter...
...mother, wearing a silk bathrobe ornamented with nude women and nymphs, then dropped the bathrobe. Attired in shorts and boxing shoes he boxed before a gallery of debutantes with Tommy Loughran, once light-heavyweight champion of the world, who wore the proper costume for boxers in training-a headguard and gym tights. Loughran refrained from knocking Cromwell out during the bout, at the end of which Cromwell was given the decision, by prearrangement...