Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mort Waldstein and Bill Brown will have to plug the hole left at the bucking role when a Princeton game charley horse put the Crimson captain on the shelf. MacKinney will play as much as he can Saturday at left end, with Bill Barnes spelling him off. The versatile Chapel Hill Junior will not be used at quarterback unless George Helden is hurt...
Dick Harlow's valuable and versatile end, who in the last few games has not been satisfied with acting as the spark plug of the Crimson team, but has taken over the duties of magnate, carburetor and generator in the bargain, suffered a muscle bruise in the Princeton mud Saturday. The injury is not serious but will be just enough to keep him out of crucial workouts for the Penn struggle...
...Harlowmen, two linesmen, Dick Pfister and Burgy Ayres, who until today have heard the referee's starting tweet from secure positions on the bench, will this afternoon held down berths of the opening lineup. Pfister has been recalled from the ranks of the blocking backs to plug a gap at right guard. Ayres gets the nod over Lone Star Diets mostly because of his more accurate snap-backs. Diets has shown himself a lion on defense in heavy duty games thus far when Ayres was out with an injury.Pete Elsor's smashing play has won him a regular starting berth...
...whatever the cause, the result is big box office, and rightly so. For the period is admirably adapted to a combination of stealthy, seething intrigue and red-blooded action. Them was the days when you didn't clout a guy over the head with an epigram or plug him with a bullet; you killed him at the end of a fifteen minute sequence of dueling and overturned every table, chair, and candelabrum in the bargain...
Before his mike, Allen always chews nervously on a wad of gum; away from the studios, he substitutes a cud of cut-plug for his Beech-Nut. He regards chewing tobacco as a safer habit than cigaret smoking. "When you smoke cigarets," he points out, "you're likely to burn yourself to death; with chewing tobacco the worst thing you can do is drown a midget...