Word: ligament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following Monday the ten tied an underdog Stevens team 8 to 8 and lost first midfielder Jim Telfer with a pulled ligament in his collar bone. On Tuesday the squad met a fine Princeton team, and lost 16 to 6; behind 10 to 0 at the half, the locals succeeded in tying the Orange 6 to 6 in the second half...
Marriage did not slow down Tompkins' breakneck career. Wife Rosemary is the daughter of a rodeo producer and a topflight performer in her own right. Working in his spine-jarring sport where broken arms & legs are commonplace, Tompkins has only had one real injury: a pulled thigh ligament. The enforced month's layoff ("I knew I wouldn't be at my best") made nervous, gum-chewing Tompkins edgier than ever, kept him out of action just long enough to lose the bull-riding title...
Most serious factor on the debit side to date has been the injury to second-line center Norm Wood. Wood severed an external lateral ligament in his left leg in Friday's practice, and will be out of action for two or three weeks. Weiland is especially concerned about Wood's loss because the scrappy junior was looking very good prior to his injury. "He's smartened up a lot, and was just beginning to work in with Jeb Bray and sophomore Neddy Bliss on the second line," Weiland says...
Pointing out that the college medical staff is "appointed to minimize the untoward results of athletics and to define as graphically and clearly as possible the end-results of treatment and those requiring special care," Thorndike contends "to dismiss a sprain of a ligament as a minor injury is a grave error...
...Stillman Infirmary. George Chase will dress in his place. On the other hand, B.U. will get back the services of its firststring defense, Joe Czarnota and Joe Folino, both of whom have been out of action for the last four Terrior games. Czarnota, who pulled a ligament against Brown, is one of the best defensemen in the East...