Word: ligaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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, and was hit from the side...
...Exercising the captain's prerogative, Dr. Christiaan Barnard moved into the first operating room and cut eight blood vessels to free Denise Darvall's heart; then he severed it from its ligament moorings. It was disconnected from the pump, and was carried to Washkansky's room, where it was connected to a small-capacity heart-lung machine. There it lay, chilled and perfused with oxygenated blood, while Surgeon Barnard removed most-but not quite all -of Washkansky's heart. He left in place part of the outer walls of both the auricles, the right carrying...
...Gatto, Harvard's star halfback, was in the infirmary Wednesday after pulling a ligament in his leg just above the knee. He was released yesterday morning and says he will play in Saturday's Dartmouth game...
Defensive end Vic Petzy, slowed to a limp with a severely strained ligament, has been a doubtful starter all year. Although he did not even suit up for the Dartmouth game, Petzy will probably see action against Penn...
Yale, after a frustrating 17-14 loss to Rutgers, will be gunning for a punchless Brown today, and the Bruins should take to the hills. The Elis will be without star quarterback Brian Dowling, who suffered a torn knee ligament last week, but that doesn't matter: Brown last week lost both of its top quarterbacks, Jack McMahon and Wynn Jessup...