Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gary Singleterry leaned back on a table in the visitors' dressing room at Holy Cross yesterday, his face racked with pain as a doctor set the broken bone in his left leg. The blond freshman punter had almost singlehandedly kept the Crimson alive in the first half, but now he was out for the season--the victim of a roughing-the-kicker tackle in the third quarter...
...third quarter was as ho-hum as the first two until the big punt. With third and 25 on their own five-yard line, Coach Henry Lamar sent Singleterry in to punt the Crimson out of trouble. He booted a 40 yarder, but with his right leg skyward, he was suddenly hit by a defender who rolled into his left leg...
Singleterry fell forward, the Crusader's momentum carried him and the punter's leg backward, and the bone snapped. "It seemed like he was deliberately coming after me," Singleterry said later...
...political strategies seem to be shifting, the traditional tactic-getting out and meeting the voters-is more effective than ever. Far from eliminating leg work, television has accentuated the candidate's need to campaign in the flesh, especially at the level of the congressional district and below. The cost of paid TV spots often makes them a prohibitive luxury until the final weeks of a campaign. Yet in something of a TV backlash, the very fact that television has made political performers commonplace makes it harder for candidates to attract crowds...
Yale, in its 17-14 loss to Rutgers, had the misfortune of losing its quarterback in the first quarter and the ball in every quarter. The Elis fumbled 10 times, five of which were recovered by Rutgers. Worse, sophomore quarterback Brian Dowling suffered a severe leg cramp late in the first period of play and was forced to sit out the remainder of the game. Dowling is expected to be ready for this Saturday's game against a weak Brown team...