Word: legging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurdle," prodded him with sticks, guffawed and jeered at his bewildered antics. Suddenly the camel, goaded by an intolerable incivility, wheeled on the shivering Shriners. His grey lips rolled back. He bit a Shriner fiercely in the shoulder. His ungainly hoof shot forward. He broke a Shriner's leg...
...firing. General Mueller raised his field-glass to observe the effect of bullets which were to whine harmlessly over many a German head. An instant later he dropped the glass, clutched at his side and fell dead. Lieutenant Colonel von Hoeruf, a staff officer, was wounded in the leg at the same moment. Aghast, Defense Minister Gessler and the military observers, realizing that the barrage had somehow fallen short, signaled frantically to the gunners to cease fire...
Harvard broke into the victory column the following autumn. The Crimson entered the game the under-dog, but soon proved its worth. When in the third period one of Cordingley's long punts hit the leg of a Princeton back, combs fell on the ball, and a moment later Piaffman entered the game and came through with a field goal. A safety in the closing period, which Princeton claimed to have made intentionally, made the final score...
Nothing of the kind. That Harvard game on Saturday is the first leg of the Big three championship, and Princeton will win that leg it she gives...
...sharp contrast to the tackling of the Crimson forwards, the William and Mary defenders stopped the Harvard backs short. Captain Elliott, M. Davis, Parsons, and especially Todd, aided by the half-backs, buried the "new" Crimson offense; even Crosby failed to gain much ground. Cheek was still saving his leg and did not carry the ball; Miller made a couple of good gains in the closing minutes, but by that time the William and Mary players, seven of whom played the entire game, were exhausted, and for the first time the charge of the Harvard forward line was effective...