Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bloomington, Ind., Indiana's hustling Hoosiers over a sluggish Notre Dame, 20-7, to make the Irish (after their earlier defeat by Purdue) seem the third best team in Indiana...
Regular center Bill Monteith was injured before the start of the season and will probably not see action today. Vonderlago showed well on both offense and defense last week but nothing much could be proved against the heavy and sluggish line of the opponents...
...season prediction had it that Zitrides would field a light, fast team this year, but the squad, particularly the linemen looked heavy and sluggish in the opener, in comparison with the Eli speedsters. The only experienced Bruin back, reliable Walt Pastuzak, tried vainly all afternoon to build up a respectable amount of yardage by sending fast halfbacks Jim Martland and Bob Lenker over tackle on quick-opening plays. Around end Brown went nowhere, and Pastuzak was able to complete only six out of 19 of his flat, hard passes against an alert Eli secondary...
...rounds La Motta worked like a man in a doze: his footwork was sluggish, his left, normally sharp and stabbing, had neither punch nor pep. Twice the referee had to step in to tell Jake to fight. In the 14th round, the Frenchman jarred him with a right cross that almost floored the 29-year-old champion for the first time in his ring career...
Persistent Rats. One of the two remaining airfields in the beachhead was at Taegu-and Taegu itself was gravely threatened. On the central front, it seemed as hard to prevent the Reds from crossing the Naktong as to stop rats from boarding a moored ship. In some places, the sluggish green water was shallow enough to wade across. At night, free from Allied air attack, the North Koreans put tanks across on barges and hastily built log and stone causeways, whose top surfaces were a foot under water and hard to see from the air. Once, in full daylight, under...