Word: punt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD-Holy Cross--Canadian football requires a first down on two plays or you punt, so today should be the unveiling of a wide-open offensive show. No matter how healthy they are, the Crusaders should dizzy after the game. The Harvard Band will tell Holy Cross to "eat your sacred heart out" as the Crimson rolls...
HARVARD-Holy Cross--Canadian football requires a first down on two plays or you punt, so today should be the unveiling of a wide-open offensive show. No matter how healthy they are, the Crusaders should be dizzy after the game. The Harvard Band will tell Holy Cross to "eat your sacred heart out" as the Crimson rolls...
...sure that your coverage of the U.S.T.T.A. team in China was great for the game, but to be called a Ping Pong player is a standard insult to a serious competitor in the U.S. Why don't you say that Lew Alcindor plays "dribble drabble," and Johnny Unitas "punt punt...
Seven for Eight. The Wild-Goose Man knows all about cover. Until a few years ago he held another unofficial title: prince of the poachers. Son of a gypsy father who migrated south from Yorkshire, Thorpe was raised in Sutton Bridge, a marsh village of flight netters and punt gunners who thrived on wild-fowling. His grandmother, a formidable woman named Leviathan, was famed for her skill at pouncing on nesting pheasants and sweeping up both birds and eggs in her petticoats. After graduating from slingshot to birdshot, Thorpe began poaching in earnest...
...Philadelphia Eagles' Billy Walik caught a Giant punt and broke loose for a 45-yd. runback. ABC-TV Commentator Howard Cosell spoke up in his distinctive nasal twang: "While we were walking up to the booth tonight, my colleague, Dandy Don Meredith, said: 'Howard, you watch, Walik is going to break a punt tonight.' " To which Colleague Meredith cheerfully replied: "Now, Hahrd, Ah didn't say that. But if you say Ah said it, Ah'll stick with it." Pause. "Hahrd, why do you always do that to me?" The gang in the press...