Word: jumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Claim Jumper. Wilson was no run-of-the-desert prospector. He was something of a legendary figure, 6 ft. 3 in., 240 Ibs., loud-voiced, belligerent and shrewd. His past included periods as a salesman of insurance, stocks and bonds, and for a time he was a manufacturer, in Salt Lake City, of water heaters. He had hundreds of patents in his name...
Exercise boys hunched over the withers or, if they trusted the animals beneath them, stood high in the stirrups. A Cuban jockey sped by, crooning to his horse in Spanish. A steeplechase jock eased past on a chestnut jumper. A skittish, short-backed filly began to act up, slogging at the bit and trying to turn back up the track. Her jockey cursed: "You crummy pig. You're going back to the bull rings...
Rittenburg, a member of the 1953 Maccabean Olympic team, was injured for most of this season, but returned to competition in time for the Yale upset. He is an outstanding hurdler, broad jumper, and high jumper, and has also run the quarter mile...
Coach Bill McCurdy will not use hurdler and broad jumper Bob Rittenburg, or Captain and half miler Jack Richards. Both these men, out with foot injuries, will probably be able to run next week against Yale...
...were the days of the "flying wedge," a V-shaped offense (now long outlawed) that cut through defenses like a bulldozer. Pudge devised the classic counter-maneuver: "As the wedge formed, I backed away to get a running start, put on full steam ahead, took off like a broad jumper, knees doubled up, and soared." When soaring Pudge crashed headlong into the man leading the V, the wedge disintegrated...