Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey's leg, and Walsh's wing...
...contest in order to keep the team running at full efficiency. Besides the less of al Merck, first-string fullback, he will also have to get along without the services of his starting right wing, Jocko smith, who is sidelined with what the doctors cryptically call an injured leg...
George Bernard Shaw, who, at 41, climbed off his soapbox to become socialist member of London's St. Pancras borough council, was prevented (by a fall) from receiving the council's belated recognition: freedom of the borough. He had tumbled from his swivel chair and bruised a leg. But he delivered an acceptance speech anyway (by radio transcription). Said Shaw: "When one is very old, as I am . . . your legs give in before your head does. Consequently you're always tumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week . . . and . . . it was perfectly plain that...
...injury also cropped up yesterday when it was disclosed that George Boston, "B" team tailback, sustained a leg ailment in Tuesday's scrimmage and will be out for at least a week...
Coach James MacDonald's main worries center about his crippled halfback line. Hunt Mavor and Gus Mavor, both starting halfbacks against Princeton last week, are at present under treatment for leg injuries, and it is questionable how much of Saturday's contest they will be able to play...