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Word: redskin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressagent named "Arizona John" Burke tooled the fantastic legend until no buffalo was left unskinned, no redskin unscalped and no maiden unavenged west of the Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Civic Asset | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...addition to head coach Lamar, the Crimson Coaching setup this fall will have former Washington Redskin professional Chief Richard Tuckey as line coach. Floyd Stahl will handle the backfield, and Chief Piscol will tutor the ends. An informal schedule, similar to that of last fall, is planned for this year's Crimson eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Practice Starts as 50 Men Report to Lamar | 8/8/1944 | See Source »

...doesn't takes as much punishment as Luckman because Sid works from the "T" formation," says the former blocking back in giving him the edge over the Chicago star. Tuckey also has words of praise for Wayne Milner and Turk Edwards, other of his famous teammates on the great Redskin teams, which met the Bears for the championship twice in a row, winning in '38 but taking a 75-0 licking the following season. "That sometimes happens in football," says the Chief; "everything we did backfired and everything they did worked. Besides, when the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tuckey, Former Redskin Player, To Be Assistant Football Coach | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...program called it Washington's Redskins v. Chicago's Bears for the professional (i.e., world's) football championship. But the 33,632 persons at Chicago's Wrigley Field early this week knew the real issue: Was Redskin Sammy Baugh or Bear Sid Luckman the better passer? The game turned into a rout, the Bears won 41-to-21, but the question was still unanswered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Answer | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

With this star-studded backfield and a 220-lb. line, the All-Army Westerners set out this week to break up the deadly passing of Redskin Sammy Baugh. They started off like Commandos: on the second scrimmage of the game, Kimbrough ran off tackle 58 yards for a touchdown. But the powerful Redskins had too much ammunition for a bunch of soldiers with only three weeks' practice. They blasted them from the air (23 completed passes), mowed them down on the ground, kicked two perfect field goals-one from the 24-yd. line, another from the 27. Score: Redskins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rah, Rah, U.S.A. | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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