Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That is why doctors associated with the Varsity football team this fall allowed only the most general descriptions of injuries sustained by Harvard players to be published, causing complaints at times from every reporter who covered the squad. It seemed at the time that numerous meaty treatises on shoulder separations, inside ankle sprains and the like were verboten, but on sober post season reminiscence it doesn't seem to have made much difference. People still wrote "leg injury," and nobody seemed to care...
...pound class the material is especially slim with only two or three men out for the Varsity position. The next class up, 128, present approximately the same picture unless the injured shoulder of Neal Holt, a former duke grappler, heals up in time for the opening meet in January. Frank Trinkie, who wrestled for Swarthmore two years ago and Harvard last year, is being counted on to fill the otherwise weak 136-pound position...
...This is typical," wrote one friendly critic, Norah Alexander of the Daily Mail, "of the flatfooted, unimaginative British approach. . . . I was sorry Mr. Disney should get such a frozen shoulder on his arrival...
...Crimson leader, who succeeds Cleo O'Donnell, was first-string fullback for Coach Dick Harlow throughout the season. He missed all but one play of the Yale game, however, because of a severs shoulder injury suffered against Brown the preceding week...
...from the front office. He got philosophical about it: "God gets you up in the morning in good health and guides you safely through traffic to the ballpark. When your turn comes, He takes you by the hand and leads you up to the plate. Then He taps your shoulder. 'Son,' He says, 'you take it from here'-and drops you flat on your puss." When the lowly Philadelphia Phillies fired him three years ago, the greying boy wonder shuffled off to Buffalo to manage the minor-league Bison team...