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Three weeks ago, if he hadn't been able to find an open receiver, Brown would have panicked. This week he coolly checked out the situation, tucked the pigskin under his arm and snuck into the right corner of the endzone...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Dartmouth Big Green Ain't So Mean | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...second quarter, Charlie Kaye jumped on a pigskin that Baggott had jarred free. In the fourth, on the play that killed Cornell, Baggott raced 40 yards downfield to recover the loose goods. In the third, he had some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Gets Its Act Together, Cornell Doesn't | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

...opening-day performance of these pigskin neophytes was very impressive. Ippolito added an interception to Halas' pair, and Columbia managed only one long gainer...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Crimson Grid Hopes Depend Largely On The Untested Defensive Secondary | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...most serious, third-degree burns, involving loss of all the layers, skin will not regenerate. To prevent loss of body heat and fluids until the patient is ready for grafts, the wound needs temporary biological dressings; overhead heat shields are also used. Doctors apply either pigskin (which closely resembles human skin) or skin from cadavers. Artificial skins have not yet proved successful, and doctors are only beginning to take matching skin from siblings and parents. But M.I.T.'s Ioannis V. Yannas, together with Shriners' Dr. John F. Burke, may soon try a promising material made of polysaccharides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Sickest Patients You'll See' | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Both teams looked to have the best shot at racking up one-sided slates since the Miami Dolphins went 17-0 in 1973 en route to the Super Bowl. The Jets managed to trip up the pigskin prophets by upsetting the Buffalo Bills, but the Giants are winless at the midseason mark and after a 27-0 drubbing at the hands of the Steelers last Sunday seem well on the way to an 0-14 mark...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: EI Sid | 10/30/1976 | See Source »

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