Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...climax of the second period came when a tangle of a dozen players at the side of the Crimson cage degenerated into a pig-pile and completely overturned the net. Football tactics were in order from first to last, the clever blocking of Humphrey and Owen on the Crimson back-ice proving one of the features of the battle. That pair of gridiron stars stepped into the hardest shots fearlessly, and put up a stone-wall opposition to the visitors' advance. Their checking defense was superb and without exception every Canadian forward who broke through the line for an individual...
...gentle-hearted Charles is delightfully evident in Mr. Ladd's "Deductions from the Death and Burial of Two Pigs." A delicious phantasy this! We trim our leg-o'-mutton sail and are off for the El Dorado of Roast Pig--which is none other than Old Man Pratt's farmhouse, over to Grennell's Green. Son Jake greets us at the door with a huge grin. And there is Bid, the heavy hired girl. And Ma Pratt. And Pa Pratt. And we all pull up chairs together. "Pitch in, everybody. . . . It looks richer than burnt gold, and it tastes like...