Word: hops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Notre Dame system, developed by the late Knute Rockne, and spread over country, has enjoyed such success, however, that its use is steadily increasing, even though Rockne has been dead for some five years. Besides the army of Notre Dame graduates who are teaching the hop shift method of getting a play started in the institutions of higher learning, many others are introducing it to the high school fields. Still other men, graduates of schools besides Notre Dame which used the system, are spreading this rhythmic, colorful offensive weapon throughout the country...
...team hops from the huddle into the formation shown here, the line balanced, the backs in the characteristic T formation, and the ends slightly split. The T formation of the backs, from which quick opening plays and plays on which the quarterback handles the ball may be run, is, like the balanced line, characteristic of the Notre Dame system. While the signal for the play to be run has been given in the huddle, the quarterback calls another set to give the cadence of the hop-shift to his mates...
Larson of the visitors tallied first in the opening period when his low shot failed to take a "big hop" and skidded past goalie Williams. Holcombe evened the score in the following quarter when he kicked a goal on the end of a combination play...
Editor Shively always has a few stock subjects which he whips unmercifully up & down his column on the slightest provocation. Jesse Jones' slow ticker service and the Administration's silver policy are current favorites. He seldom passes up a chance to hop on fatuous statements, particularly those in brokers' market letters. Great was the glee of Hard-money-man Shively when he spotted a Treasury statement in which "lawful money" erroneously appeared as "awful money." Another typical Shively item appearing last December: "The latest issue (July) of the illustrated monthly magazine, U. S. S. R. in Construction...
...attended Mechanic Arts High School, where he starred on the track team. In 1912 he was on the Olympic Team, competing in the broad jump and the hop, skip, and jump. In 1924 and 1928 he was assistant coach of the Olympic Team...