Word: plunger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irwin Winkelried has won Grimsley's regular right halfback post. A hard, rugged plunger and a fine defensive player, the sophomore back is one of the most consistent performers in the Scarlet lineup and sports a 5.4 average in yards gained rushing...
...type of player he wants, Brown sends his scouts to small colleges. From Nevada, he picked up Negro fullback Marion Motley, who is already being spoken of as a more devastating line-plunger than Army's "Doc" Blanchard. He collected a great pass-catching end (Mac Speedie) from the University of Utah, a great punter ("Horse" Gillom) from Massillon (Ohio) High School, the best place-kicker in the land (Lou Groza), who never played varsity at any college. The only big-time college hero on his squad is his passer, trigger-armed Otto Graham, late of Northwestern...
Diamond Flush. In Berwick, Pa., Mrs. Hensyl Garrison absently dropped her diamond ring into one of the 300 bags of potato chips she was filling, shipped it off to an unknown nibbler. In Weatherly, Pa., Mrs. Emory J. Miller irritably attacked a clogged drain with a suction plunger, brought up the $175 ring that she misplaced 20 years...
Adams' single victory this year hardly tells the story of the team which threw a scare into the ranks of the Deacons last Tuesday. Although slightly weak on pass defense, the Gold Coasters possess a strong forward wall and a high stepping line plunger in Dick McCarthy...
...Plunger. In Los Angeles, Frank Knapp Jr. hired crews to dig for water, drew a blank at 100 ft., dug 90 ft. deeper, now owns an oil well...