Word: mudders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marvelous Mudder. The quick Navy line bounced and jittered through so many defensive formations that Army Mockers got as fouled up as the weather. The Army infantry could never get rolling, and the cadets fell back on old-fashioned three-P football: punt, pass and pray for the breaks. They kicked repeatedly on third down, completed a couple of passes, even got a few breaks when Navy backs fumbled the waterlogged ball. But all their prayers only produced a Navy attack for which they could not fathom an answer...
...pass option play. Sometimes he flubbed passes when the wet ball skidded off his fingers, but always, when he needed help, he had the most devastating weapon on the field: Navy's rapid little (5 ft. 10 in., 176 Ibs.) captain. Ned Oldham, a marvelous mudder from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio...
...family raving mad. Ah hear his mudder say he must never cross de threshold of her door again...
...which had not been called for, and demanding to be paid. Flabbergasted, William swore he had never ordered the suit and finally put his mother on the phone. After some angry argument, she challenged the tailor to describe William.† "Ha!" said Jim. "It's a fine mudder dat don't even know...
...Utah, Utah," cawed a Brooklyn voice. "What part of Connecticut is Utah?" "Who won the war, who won the war," chanted a troop from Massachusetts, and Georgians replied: "The South did-and do you all want to fight it over?" "Ah, go wire ya mudder...