Word: jims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hero of The Big Sky is a raw Kentucky boy named Boone Caudill who goes West after he hits his Pap a lick with a piece of firewood. In St. Louis in 1830, he and his friend Jim Deakins join up for a keelboat expedition to the wild Blackfoot country at the headwaters of the Missouri. The cargo for trading is mostly whiskey; but their ace-in-the-hole, counted on to save the scalps of the whole company from Indians, is a twelve-year-old squaw named Teal Eye, daughter of a Blackfoot chief...
...once they have passed through the vast and lonely country that is now Nebraska and the Dakotas, Teal Eye runs away. Three days later the Indians attack and kill all the party except Boone, Jim and sardonic Dick Summers, a man swift and animal-sensitive, who ranks as the most vivid scout in literature since Natty Bumppo, in James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales...
That the boys from down the Charles did not win certainly was not the fault of their one man gang, Jim Clifford, who scored everyone of his team's six goals. On no less than four of these tallies Clifford did the job unassisted...
...next year's ball-carrying unit will be at least the equal of last fall's eleven. Chip Gannon, he of runs to the left, made ground every time he took the ball, and there is little doubt that he will be starting wingback come the fall. Freshmen Jim Kenary and Hal Moffle looked to be the best of the tailbacks although plenty of other talent turned up at this position...
...still very much in a state of flux. "After Chuck Glynn," said Harlow, "we've got a lot of good boys, and I don't know just who's the best." Chet Pierce, Howle Houston, and Nick Rodis, converted from guard, were the most prominent tackles, while Bob Drennan, Jim Feinberg, Emil Drvaric, and Dick Guiders hold down the guard slots...