Word: plungers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Allen, star defensive back and line-plunger, and Kline, outstanding Yale performer against the Crimson last year, easily lead as individual scorers among Tad Jones' football men, Crosby, flashy Sophomore carrier, is Coach Ficher's scoring ace, with Captain Cheek holding the runner-up position for individual scoring honors among the Cambridge cohorts...
...Kline the Elis have a mighty line-plunger whose work in the mud last season will not soon be forgotten. Allen, the big fullback, is much the same type of player as Gehrke, being a strong defensive player, a good line-plunger, and an excellent kicker, Noble, who will start at halfback today, is a speedy carrier who will test heralded Harvard ends. And in Bunnell Yale has a cool, experienced, and flashy quarterback who is indispensable to the smoothness of the Blue attack. Harvard will do well to stop this brilliant quartet today...
Dignan, although no such honor will probably be accorded him, will be missed. As a line-plunger, Dignan had no equal on the squad, unless Prendergast was his superior. As a defensive back, he easily outshone the bemasked Tiger substitute, and one of his chief contributions to Princeton this year was his service as a receiver of the aerial threats around which Roper had built his offense. With Dignan gone, Slagle will have to be supplied with a new battery mate...
...then connected a tube with a vein in his arm. The tube led up to a barrel-shaped cylinder about an inch high from which on the other side a similar tube stretched to prick the chilly flesh of poor Mae Wahl. The doctor turned a switch and a plunger began to work in the cylinder. On the down stroke it sucked blood out of the veins of the seller; on the up stroke it pumped this same blood into the anemic lady. A metre on the side of the cylinder-much like the indicators on the ordinary red gasoline...
...Horton, a good line plunger and a steady defensive player. So far this year he has not figured in the Green's serial attack...