Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...status of Emil Drvaric remains uncertain, although it seems likely that he will be in the lineup on Saturday. His leg injury is not yet fully healed, and he may see only limited duty against the Jumbos...
John Harvard, veteran, has reason to wonder at the palace on the Charles these days. Prewar registration days were a far cry from the maddening crowd that thundered through Memorial Hall on the first leg of their pursuit of a formal education. Course attendance ballooned to new levels as cozy discussion courses became monstrous lecture courses. House dining halls continued to look like Army mess halls. Laundry salesmen and cleaning contractors, once frenetic in their hunt for prospects, assumed an unbecoming coyness. As for getting books, John found texts unobtainable and the lines interminable. In fact, John found lines everywhere...
With Connecticut only three days away by station wagon, Dick Harlow put his boys through their paces against U-Conn plays yesterday afternoon in a tough day of dummy scrimmage. Big Vince Moravec was back on the field for the first time since he bumped his leg Monday, looking strong and leaving observers not too much in doubt about his readiness for some action Saturday...
Jimmy Savo, past master of comic pantomime, was busy figuring out new comedy routines. Place: a Manhattan hospital. Occasion: convalescence from the amputation of his tumorous right leg. Fey-and-wistful Savo, now 54, was keeping his chin up. "I've always kept it up," said he, "ever since I was eight years old, when I balanced a 48-pound wheel...
...loss of big Chester Pierce that threw the tackle situation into high gear at the start of practice. Chester ran into a recurrence of his 1945 leg injury that will keep him on the bench for at least half the season; Harlow lost his other would-be starter, Howie Houston, for least two weeks with another leg injury. In an effort to boister the tackle positions, Harlow has moved in a variety of other linemen to fill the gap, with former guards Eddle Davis and Ned Dewey looming as starters. Both Davis and Dewey are experienced linemen, with the former...