Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forced to juggle last year's record breaking mile relay team when Alan Howe pulled a leg muscle, McCurdy came up with a combination of holdovers: Dave Wharton, and Captain Bob Rittenburg. This team has already worked well enough to lower its predecessor's University record...
...unexpected disappointment to McCurdy has been the accidents which have hobbled his milers, Phil Williams leg injuries have sidelined them both. so, McCurdy has converted Art Wills from the two mile...
...Anacostia in 1934, his career nearly came to a sudden end. He was testing a plane when the main fuel line broke, gasoline flooded the cockpit and caught fire. Pride held his breath, so as not to inhale flames, and crashed in the Potomac River. His jaw and left leg were broken. Doctors decided to amputate the leg, but by sheer chance, a new chief surgeon reported for duty and agreed to delay the operation. The leg was saved, but Pride still walks with a limp. Says he: "I have to carry a little left rudder all the time...
...splashed his hands so freely with talcum powder that he managed to bathe his opponents and the table as well. "The whole joint," recalled one victim, "looked like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew how to sneeze, scratch, or reach for a towel just as his rival was shooting. But few could imitate bald Onofrio Lauri, who was often accused of polishing his pate and reflecting the table lights into his opponents' eyes...
Captain Bob Rittenburg jumped to a quick lead in the opening leg of the relay, but Morgan State went ahead before he could pass the baton to Dick Wharton...