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...leaves weren't blazing red and yellow yesterday, and no October tang was in the air, but plenty of pigskin was flying as the squad, class only in athletic shorts and cleats, ran through signal drills and pass defense. No contact work is expected for awhile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Practice Starts as 50 Men Report to Lamar | 8/8/1944 | See Source »

...fullback is the key man in this system, handling the ball more than any other player. On most plays from this hybrid T, the pigskin comes first to him, since he is the middle man in the line-up of backs, whereupon he turns and fakes or passes the ball to someone before going about his business, whatever it may happen...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: Passing the Buck | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

...middle of the line Chief Specialist Frank Naumetz, co-captain at Boston College last year, coached Ed Donovan, second string last fall for Columbia, and Rick Woodruff, who made the Varsity squad here. Twenty-five ends tossed the pigskin around at the end of the field under the watchful eye of Ensign Ray Adkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 120 Football Candidates Report to Lamar For First Fall Workout at Soldiers Field | 8/31/1943 | See Source »

Declaring the quantity and attitude of his men to be as favorable as in years past, Coach Henry Lamar is planning a contest with a local school for his pigskin charges to round up their five week spring training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMAR ELEVEN WILL PLAY LOCAL OUTFIT THIS WEEK | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...sake of expectant posterity, especially that Soc. major of 2043 writing his thesis on those quaint old days when, even during a war, people had time to sit solemnly around listening to men twang cat-gut, blow straws, and thump on pigskin, it might be well to take leave of my sporadic incumbency of this post by letting off a little steam re music criticism and the state of music in general...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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