Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately for the home team, junior tackle Bob Pillsbury will return to action after a week's layoff with a bad leg. He, along with right tackle Eric Nelson, could do much to insure a victory. Though neither has the size of last years' stalwarts, Bob Shaunessey and Pete Briggs, each has progressed rapidly this season and give the Crimson one of the toughest pairs of tackles in the league...
Injuries to McCall, Steele, and Morgan may hamper the Crimson. McCall and Steele are suffering from leg contusions, and Morgan sprained his ankle in the Tufts encounter. Charlie David is a capable fill-in at fullback, however, and the second halfback line of Bill King, Bill Driver, and Pete Savage showed in Wednesday's game that the Crimson has few backfield worries...
Benjamin's second mile was three seconds faster than his first. Again, this race demonstrated his remarkable development in a short period of time. Until the Army meet on April 18, he had never run a mile as fast as his 4:26 second leg at Santry. And his time for the race was nearly 13 seconds faster than his best previous effort. It will be a long time before a runner with Benjamin's dogged determination and competitive pride wears a Crimson uniform...
...mostly ceremonial position than Vanier, a courtly, erect soldier-diplomat full of years and his country's honors. Major General Vanier's family emigrated to New France from Normandy 300 years ago. Tall, mustached, old-worldly, he walks with a black walnut cane, a reminder of the leg he lost (and the D.S.O. he won) as a major of Quebec's famed Royal 22nd Regiment (the "Van Doos") at Cherisy in World War I. In Paris, where Vanier was Canada's admired postwar ambassador (1945-53), he is remembered as a sort of Canadian Charles...
...Denounced as "immoral" the leg-kicking and skirt-tossing can-can dance put on for him when he visited a Hollywood studio...