Word: pigskin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Team A was given the pigskin on the center line. It immediately found itself facing much sterner opposition than at any previous time this season, for after driving the scrubs back to their 43-yard line, it lost the ball on downs. Then Heagney, one of the blackshirt's best backs, dropped back to receive a long pass from center. He muffed it, and half a dozen Crimson players closed in. But from out of the mass a figure dashed, dodged one or two tacklers, and then tore down the field, leaving behind a group of dazed players. When...
...yard line to the goal posts they repeated the charge of the day before. Pounding constantly at the scrub's line they rapidly drove them on Hodler substituted for Adie, Cheek for Spalding, and Puffer for Gehrke. It was Puffer, recently arisen from the seconds, who finally carried the pigskin over...
...Stadium. Coach Fisher gave Team A the ball on its 20-yard line. By fast and powerful linebucks, the University team easily carried the ball to midfield. Spalding, Hammond, Gehrke, and Miller worked with the precision usually found in a backfield toward the middle of the season. The pigskin was then returned to the University's 30-yard line, and Team A again drove it to midfield. The ball was moved about by the coaches arbitrarily...
...Davis, and doubtless will help to heal any little wounds still left by the titanic struggle of the Convention. Then, one morning, a pile of baggage suddenly appeared on the steps of the Murray Hill Hotel in Manhattan. At the bottom of the pile was a little pigskin suitcase marked: "J. W. D., New York," signifying that the candidate had returned from his rest in the woods of Maine to activity in the eastern centre. Shortly afterward, he issued a statement giving practical support to his running mate, Charles W. Bryan, who had attacked Defense Day as advocated by President...
...little pigskin suitcase marked "J. W. D., New York...