Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sputter & Stall. It took a while for the crowd of 101,000 in Philadelphia Municipal Stadium (and for millions of TV and radio fans) to realize that a fired-up Navy team was playing with the fantastic conviction that it could actually beat Army. But the crowd began to get Navy's idea early in the second quarter. After recovering an Army fumble, the Middies ground out 33 yards in four plays, with Zastrow barging the last seven through a barndoor hole in the Army line for a touchdown...
Army roared back upfield with the following kickoff, only to sputter and stall again as Navy stopped the Cadet runners dead in their tracks. In the closing minutes of the half, Navy went 63 yards for touchdown No. 2, with Zastrow heaving a looping 30-yard pass to End Jim Baldinger, who clawed it away from an Army man in the end zone...
...high into the air, continually forced the Crimson to play Yale's game. When Harvard was able to move the ball on the carpet, its attack looked good. Midway through the third period the home team's superior ball handling seemed ready to pay off, but it couldn't stall Yale's sustained drives...
...doesn't try to knock the spirit out of a horse; any horse he rides can be raced again in a couple of days-and that's unusual. Willie's a great judge of pace. He doesn't whip the horse right out of the stall like Longden, but gets the feel of the horse in the first few strides, then knows instinctively how to race that horse to win. He's the kind of jock who 'rates' horses ... He has good hands, and horses instinctively like him-because he's kind...
Bars Down? Norma dismounted and hustled Country Boy to his stall. The big (17.1 hands, 1,450 Ibs.) nine-year-old gelding, worth an estimated $20,000, had kicked himself going over a jump. For the better part of an hour, worried Norma played nursemaid (ice baths, salve, liniment and heavy wrappings) to Country Boy's bruised left fetlock. Such concern was only common sense to Norma: "After all, the horse is 60% of my success." Her own 40% contribution is "rhythm" and "getting to know" Country Boy, plus 22 years of riding experience in a 27-year lifetime...