Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kelly, the only real speedster in Notre Dame's backfield. Against Pittsburgh, the rosy-cheeked V12 right halfback handled the ball 14 times, gained 232 yards, raced to four touchdowns (one an 84-yard gallop). Against Tulane, his change-of-pace foxing of the defense enabled him to pull down the first touchdown pass. But Kelly's span at South Bend may be short; he completes his V12 training about...
...season with the 23-year-old National Football League. And the fruits of victory, judged by National League balance sheets, might have a low sugar content: only four of the ten teams-the New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers-had made money over the long pull. But the dollar-heavy newcomers ignored past performances, swore by the future...
...used so far this year, but not necessarily abandoned by Lamar, is the famous "double shift." Constructed so as to pull opposing linemen offside, although no one would every admit that, it worked to the turn of just 17 offside penalties in the 1942 Penn game. The formation starts with a single wing to the right, but everyone starts moving of a sudden, with the fullback spinning to confuse matters, and pretty soon it is a left formation--with at least three of the opponents offside by them...
...element of hope in the situation is that its gravity is forcing the Chinese to pull themselves together (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Germany. He had a chat with British Ambassador Lord Halifax (and made a bet with him-amount undisclosed-on the war's end-date undisclosed). He also did some quick shoring-up of his political defenses, calling in the Governor of Texas and ordering Jimmy Byrnes to pull out all stops on reconversion...