Word: linemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully considered bids got him nearly everything he needed: fast linemen to brush-block and scat downfield, blazing fast halfbacks, a blocking fullback and, above all, a sleight-of-hand quarterback. Greasy got a few name players and a lot of unknowns who had what he wanted...
Though soundly beaten by Cornell and by the Melville team, the Sub Base will field a formidable and very heavy squad, with linemen of 224 and 235 pounds each and a fullback who tips the scales at a mere...
...little ships stuck to their picket line, and the men stuck to their guns. They set a world's antiaircraft record by shooting down 490 planes during the 82-day battle. They went to "general quarters" 150 times. The picket linemen's spirit was set down for history in a message sent by one little ship in April: "Have been hit by two suicide planes; shot down the third; am taking damaged destroyer...
...Fritz Crisler an "unbalanced T," Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa a "part-time T." The Boston (professional) Yanks call theirs the Q.T. Washington's Coach Ralph ("Pest") Welch, who took on a T with man-in-motion last year, this year dropped the man-in-motion, spread his linemen (see diagram) for a basic off-tackle slice, scrambled this formation with the old Notre Dame box style of offense (a man on each corner). In the quiet of the locker room, he calls this conglomeration the "bastard...
...looks scarcely older than he did when he was making his number 55 famous as the scourge of opposing linemen. One of Coach Dick Harlow's speediest, halfbacks, Torbie was the only member of his class to win his letter as a sophomore, and the only one to start on the eleven that smashed Clint Frank and Yale's hopes for an undefeated season, one November afternoon of 1937 when Harvard Stadium saw Crimson...