Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human body-as two of football's most talented practitioners discovered this month. Notre Dame Quarterback Terry Hanratty tried to take the ball around end on an option play, and ran head-on into two tacklers. One hit him high, while the other pinioned his left leg. Snap went a ligament in Hanratty's left knee, and that was the end of his season. Four days later, the Chicago Bears' breakaway halfback, Gale Sayers, hit similar trouble when he tried to turn the corner on an end run. He planted his right foot to cut downfield...
...emphasizing his points with pats on the shoulder, issued the ultimate rebuttal. "Son, there are ten thousand every year who don't get their bill. So the Commonwealth passed a law requiring everyone to come in and ask for his bill. So you've got no legal leg to stand on. And if you don't pay, you can never register a vehicle here again...
...football are matched only by his disdain for discipline. He has been known to run one play while all the rest of the Giants were running another. And he loves to tell the story of the time he was a track star at Texas Southern University, running the anchor leg in a one-mile relay-and crossed the finish line carrying two batons...
...scored 6 goals this season to trail Bogovich for team honors, was forced out of action against Brown with an ankle bruise and has been slowed since then. Captain Scott Robertson has been playing with an ankle sprain and knee and shoulder injuries. Jaime Vargas, slowed by a leg injury in the Brown game, should be fully recovered for Yale...
Fullback Bob Gray and outside Gerry Montero watched the game from the bench. High-scoring star Peter Bogovich sat out the first half, while linemates Solomon Gomez, Captain Scott Robertson, and Jaime Vargas limped through the game with an assortment of leg injuries. Goalie Richie Locksley, whose bruised ribs forced him out of the Brown game, managed to play for the entire contest...