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...sole score came midway in the third quarter, when Carl Linblad passed over center to Hugh Wheelright for ten yards and six points. Whiting put the pigskin between the uprights for the extra point...
Though proving themselves formidable battlers, the home side of the stands didn't expose an exceptional knowledge of Walter Camp's great game. When Chuck Roche did his best to lift the pigskin over the heads of the entire New Brunswick line and unloaded it on the goal line, there were murmers of unreasoned protest against the referee ruling the fumble Scarlet property...
...ball used was generally quite soft, and its shape was nearer to being round than it is today. With passing confined to a rare lateral, a large, hard pigskin was not needed. The team would lace and blow up the ball just before the game and often they had a long, difficult time doing it to their satisfaction. Woodman, one of the five surviving members of the team of '87, remembers his difficulties preparing the pigskin with pained amusements...
Wind and rain blew cold on Soldiers Field Varsity football practice yesterday afternoon, but the squad was running hot. At the end of a soggy but spirited workout which kept the white slippery pigskin whipping through the darkness, Coach Dick Harlow announced that converted tackle Nick Rodis would be acting field captain to call the coin for the Rutgers kickoff tomorrow...
...just now the emphasis is on the pigskin and the Jayvees won their first game for 1947 on Saturday, Elijah the prophet had plenty to say about the future but Elijah Boston, in the tradition of a football coach does not. "We may win some, but last year was a freak," he says...