Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veterans of last year's fistic carnival will be in the ring this week and next. Tommy Rodgers, one-armed pile-driver who flailed his way to the 155-pound crown last spring, will be defending his laurels against what Lamar terms "a strong field...
...fullback is the key man in the Crisler offensive. He is not the pile-driving, hippe type. He spins and he starts most of the plays. The quarterback is the blocking back. Jack Weisenberger played fullback for the Wolverines last fall. He weighs about 175. He generally got the ball on a direct pass from center, after the switch from T to single-wing, and then the fun began, with as many as five men eventually handling the ball as in the now-famous Rose Bowl end-around...
Coach Moe Berg's Freshmen, recuperating from a wild bus ride into the hills of New Hampshire, were not in top form. They were good enough, however, to pile up a long 25 to 12 lead in the first half, and held it with the reserves during the last canto...
...Literature for 14 years, wrote one book of his own (My Boyhood in a Parsonage). Following World War I he shuttled about the world trying to put the financial pieces together (Dawes and Young plans), knew and advised the world's powerful (Clemenceau, Lloyd George). He made a pile of money (reportedly $500,000 in 1931), gave piles of it away, epitomized the U.S. ideal of the public-spirited tycoon...
...born) had something to do with it. Lieut. Clyde Scott of Canada's "Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan. He was taken to a German hospital. Two years later, after his parents had given him up for dead (memorial services for him had been held at Perth, Ont.), he came back, married a divorcee and settled...