Word: linesmen
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...arrogance, decided the gallery. Followed the boohs, the hisses. Play began. Miss Wills, despite her poker face, was unnerved by her reception. The British women won the first set 6-0. The rowdies in the gallery roared their delight. Now thoroughly possessed by mob savagery, they jeered linesmen for unpopular decisions, roared down the umpire who tried to silence them, seemed, to feel little aggrieved to see the match, the series, the Wightman Cup, go to the British Women...
...champion of the U. S. She defeated Mrs. Marion Z. Jessup for the Longwood title, 7-5, 6-2. Once Mrs. Jessup was within a point of taking a set. She whacked a speedy forehand into the left corner of the court-a beautiful passing shot. Two of the linesmen looked at each other with a mute, sleepy question. They called...
...carriers in weight, their average weight being 181 as compared with 164 for the Nassau men. This is made up for by the ten pounds that separates the averages of the two lines. That of the Crimson eleven weighs only 181, as did its backfield, while the seven Princeton linesmen average...
...quickly was noticed that the "next-to-end" made more tackles than the other linesmen and so his name was changed first to tackler and finally to tackle. Likewise it was seen that the "next-to-center" guarded the center while the latter put the ball in play and so the "next-to-center" naturally became known as the guard. Signals were invented, sentences at first in which a name or first letter of a name indicated the play. Interference, originally called "guarding," began slowly to evolve, limited in the beginning to a players running by the side...
...backfield the work of Cottle, Allen, Failing, Cutler, Lindley and Pond restored the optimism that the linesmen removed. Cottle had a terrific work-out against Georgia, and stood up under the test with extraordinary ability and results. Few people realize that Yale's touchdown was due almost entirely to his brilliant playing. It was not spectacular in that there were no length of the field runs but when one player can hit a line as heavy as Georgia's, carrying the ball himself in eleven out of thirteen plays, and in those plays, bringing the pigskin from...