Word: linemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blockers and changing defensive linemen are restrained by two other rule changes. New, blockers are not allowed to block opponents above the shoulders. Injuries caused by abrupt contact between elbows and faces helped to hasten the switch...
...Army got authority from Congress to pick its own candidates when congressional choices failed to make the grade. When Army beat Navy in 1944 for the first time in six years, suspicious Navy men began to wonder if West Point had not found a new source for husky linemen and jet-propelled backs. Last year, after five lean Navy seasons, capped by 1949's thumping 38-0 Army victory, the Navy decided it would take another act of Congress to get Annapolis squared away again...
...monkeys along their wires. A few years ago two parakeets exchanged what has been called history's hottest kiss on the trans-isthmus high-tension line. The parakeets, one on a grounded wire and the other on a live one, touched bills, doused the lights in the Zone. Linemen found them next morning-two tiny fried fowl with bills still touching...
Then the 80 men get to work is earnest, as Ted Schmitt, one of the assistants, led them through 15 minutes of calisthenics. Group work followed, with Norm Shepard and Josh Williams handling the backs, Schmitt and Joe Maras, linemen, Henry Lamar, ends, and Jordan going from group to group...
...Pitt, Schmitt coached the freshmen and scouted for the varsity. During spring practice and pre-season fall sessions he coached varsity linemen but once the season started he worked with the varsity only when his freshmen demonstration opposition plays...