Word: pigskin
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...good part of the lineup for the Bates opener will be decided by the individual performances turned in this afternoon. Hence the coaching staff wanted to check up on each and every slant of the great sport of pigskin chasing...
...news hound journeyed past Gales Ferry where the Yale football team had taken over the crow headquarters for their own use, noted more activity than was usual in New England on the Lord's Day. Perhaps he heard the bark of signals; perhaps the thud of boot on taut pigskin; perhaps the creaking of the tackling dummy. In any event his curiosity was aroused and he started to investigate...
...smiling after a salmon fishing holiday in Scotland (see cut), entered the House to deliver the speech for which all were breathlessly waiting. Because he was bringing the best news Britain has heard since 1931, Neville Chamberlain blew himself to a new brief case of gleaming yellow pigskin to carry the precious budget of 1934. By tradition Britain's budget is always supposed to be contained in a red morocco box on the Speaker's table. Chancellor Chamberlain slipped his few typewritten pages from brief case to the budget box before addressing the Speaker and the House...
Scrum end-lineup for the start or resumption of play. The ball-pigskin covered but blunter than an American football-is thrown between two packs of forwards who bend over with locked arms, butting against each other and trying to kick the ball out to their backs. Scrum follows a knock-on (forward fumble while running). After a ball goes into touch end (out-of-bounds) it is lined-out (thrown in among two lines of forwards). A player catching a kick can signal for the equivalent of a fair catch by digging his heel in the turf and crying...
...play at Pasadena this year, Columbia must bear the charge of overemphasizing intercollegiate football. The squad has just completed one of the most successful seasons in Morningside history. Now the team is to be sent 3,000 miles away to show its unique ability in booting a tiny pigskin before mobs for whom this university signifies solely a good football team...