Word: socking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, Columbia discovered their star forward, Fred Sock, who moves like a "whistling chaser" firecracker, would be marked one-on-one by Matt Bowyer. Throughout the game, the Lions could not buy a break from the refs. And on top of all that, there was this guy Nelson...
...Columbia players were not about to hang listlessly in the second half, though. Fifteen minutes into the period, the Lions started to get hungry on offense. Sock broke loose from Bowyer and apparently had Crimson goalkeeper Herold at his mercy from close range when sweeper George Grassby bowled Sock over in an attempted tackle...
...Lions roared for a tripping call and a penalty kick, but they received only blank expressions from the referees in return. Suffering a stiff leg from the incident, Sock lost the edge on his speed for the rest of the game. With Sock injured and Herold repelling Columbia charge after Columbia charge, Lohrer's goal looked plumper and plumper as the half progressed...
...That was super!" Bullard said after the game. "Lee gave me two just beautiful passes." The two goals held up for the victory as Sock scored from close in at 35:00 for the single Lion tally...
...Andrew, do you realize that you're a gutless chameleon?" asked Teacher Jim Searles of the shy, withdrawn teen-ager who had come for an interview at the Hyde School in Bath, Me. Andrew was close to tears, but Searles was only following the sock-it-to-'em pedagogic philosophy of his boss, Hyde Founder Joseph Gauld, 50. Faced with a rebellious applicant, Gauld once shouted, "Listen, I'm telling you either change your attitude around me or I will jam it down your throat...