Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loren MacKinney out of the Yale contest, but his chances of seeing service are becoming increasingly slender. He was able to walk about the field yesterday and may be able to jog in a day or two. But the best he can hope for is to have his injured leg respond to treatment quickly enough for him to run by Saturday. In any event, he will miss a week's practice and undoubtedly will not start against Yale...
MacKinney Leg injury...
...only sour note marring the clean cut 10 to 0 win over the Bruins was the leg injury sustained by Loren MacKinney, the versatile Tar Heel who has been dividing his time between left end and blocking back. Doctors have not definitely ruled him out of the Yale game, but he is hobbling around on crutches with a bad right knee as a result of the tumble he took in the third period after leaping high in the air to intercept a Brown pass...
...iron permits a stiff rocking motion, which does not jar the leg. Cast and iron are removed after eight weeks. The pins are pulled out painlessly with pliers...
...soon as swelling disappears, a soft plaster cast is wound directly over both leg and pins. Several days later, depending on the type of fracture, the patient is fitted with a "walking iron"-a narrow, U-shaped strip of iron about one and a half feet long. The base slips under the instep like a stirrup, the two long arms are bound with more plaster up either side of the leg...