Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan-born Shari has been aiming at one audience or another since she pulled her first rabbit out of a hat at the age of four. A broken leg in adolescence ended her dream of becoming a professional dancer, so she turned to ventriloquism. A year later, at 18, she had her own TV show, has had one or more ever since. Today her pell-mell schedule leaves her about an hour and a half a day to herself, during which "I look at my husband...
Only the first line has been fixed so far, as Higginbottom centers Vietze and Kelley. After a winter of relative inaction due to an injured leg, Kelley could well return to the form he exhibited sophomore year, when he trailed only Bobby Cleary in the Ivy scoring race. Higginbottom is the best stick-handler on the squad, and much of the line's success will depend on his playmaking ability...
...quick surprises. The audience seldom has a sense of what is coming and may quite literally be hit with it. The evening offers a series of memorably wacky pictures: a man contentedly nibbling a dog biscuit; a superb high-kicking chorus line with one girl always kicking the wrong leg; a male ballet dancer suddenly blushing at his own immodest tights...
...with the pass option play and Choquette bore down relentlessly on the middle of the line in a 33-7 rout of an injury-riddled Crimson eleven. Today, injuries have not taken such a toll on the varsity, though halfback Tom Lawson has been sidelined with a week-old leg bruise. Linemen Jim Keating and Chuck Papalia both are bothered with stiff necks and will be used sparingly...
...players that might have developed faster but for bothersome leg injuries are Repsher and Bert Messenbaugh. The latter was hurt in the Cornell game and was unable to play hard for the following four Saturdays. Repsher appeared to have won the starting halfback position in the Cornell and Lehigh contest but was sidelined with an ankle injury, giving Tom Lawson his chance to capture the right halfback spot. "It was more serious than it appeared at first, because Larry relies so much on his speed," Yovicsin said...