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...senior passer's 18th TD flip, breaking the mark set a decade ago by Caroll Lowenstein. Number 17 came with 55 seconds left in the first half on a fingertip grab by the spectacular pigskin Comodore Hornblower...
Wally Grant and Harry Van Oudenallen, of pigskin repute, and Oliver Everett made up a second midfield. Munro is trying junior Craig Stapleton with sophomore Jim Kilkowski and Terry Vogt for a third unit...
...cover combat in World War II, Woodward returned to the Trib as editor of the sports department. He hired writers of the caliber of Red Smith and horse racing Expert Joe Palmer. He purged his pages of what he called "unholy jargon," banishing such words as horsehide, pigskin, donnybrook, grid battles. When a reporter wrote that someone had "belted a home run," Woodward whipped off his own belt and shouted, "Here, let's see you hit a home run with this." Such was Woodward's pride in his shop that when the managing editor once suggested running...
Seven Out of Nine. When he tucks that $23 official N.F.L. pigskin into the crook of his arm and stutter-steps into the line, big (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.) Jim Brown is without argument the greatest runner in professional football. In 1957, the first year he joined Cleveland as an All-America from Syracuse University and the Browns' No. 1 draft choice, he gained an incredible 942 yds. on the ground. He has not done that poorly since. Only eleven men in the N.F.L.'s 45-year history have gained 1,000 yds. or more...
...easily printed with clear color and bold design. Now some of the big Paris houses are backing away a bit from what bids fair to be an all-out fad, but U.S. manufacturers are bringing it out in all kinds of new colors and patterns-tiger, pigskin, and the ubiquitous...