Word: leg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamlin will start the Crimson attack. The second line, which will see early action, consists of Tudor, Scott and Durant. Captain Ellison will be seen in his regular berth of left defense, but it is probable that Clark will not line up beside him on account of a recent leg injury. Coady will take the veteran defense man's place, the big pivot having shown marked improvement since the start of the season and deemed capable of filling the gap left by Clark's absence...
...Princeton coaching to cripple "pivotal" players. The former Harvard tackle posts Princeton as guilty of "dirty" foot ball in two games in which he took part. He makes ten "accusations" against the Princeton "football system." In most of them he names Harvard players who, he says, had a leg broken, or knees "badly twisted," or a wrist dislocated, or were otherwise disabled by a foul play. One of his charges is that "Princeton tackles, coming in under kicks, often do not try to block punts, but with high, powerful knee action rough up the defending halfback". Much of Hubbard...
...week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves...
...their tongues out at him, for he was tame and scolded only because his mother and father, who were always running from rattlesnakes, taught him to. Last week he chased after the children, whistling all the while a shrill whine. This child's foot, that child's leg he nipped at. Then his jaws sagged open, his hind legs dragged a faint furrow in a Levelland street, in the final stiffening of rabies, given him by one of the town hounds or by some coyote bum. Four of the children he had bitten were rushed to Austin...
...years ago flew in France, affected surprise and concern upon discovering that it was not, after all, a very "nice" war. The young men hated their duty and believed, according to this writer, that the best talisman for an airman was "a garter taken from the left leg of a virgin in the dark of the moon...