Word: tackier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must admit, however, that once or twice we have found ourselves in the disconcerting position of taking out a powerful tackier and then finding that the quarterback has left the interference and is charging across the other side of the field. Even more disconcerting is to discover that he has temporarily left the field and has gone over to consult Coach Congress. However, these are only occasional complications, and on the whole the democratic team works cooperatively and effectively together...
...than his predecessor Tom Harmon, although last year his combined running and passing (for 1,235 yds.) far outstripped Harmon's best total. He is a heavy-legged, hippy runner along the lines of "Flatfoot Frank" Sinkwich, late of Georgia. He is a superb faker and a hard tackier. But he has one weakness-pass defense-which keeps him on the bench when the enemy has the ball. The way Chapp explains it": "You have to smell where to go on pass defense-and my sniffer's not too good...
...recall how good he was. The story Bob liked best was dad's quarterback sneak: "Mind you, I weighed only 135 Ibs. then. . . . I took the ball on my own 20, broke into the clear. The secondary had me trapped by the sidelines. . . . I spun away from one tackier . . . then another. . . ." The story grew each year; in the most recent version, dad ran from his own two-yard line, and was tackled on the enemy's one-yard line. Says Bob with a grin: "Dad has no clippings to prove...
...lunch, Chappuis manages to swallow a cupful of beef broth, but he only nibbles at the filet mignon put before him. Football is still a deadly serious and unnerving game to him, even though he has faced, as have many players on 1947 squads, worse menaces than an onrushing tackier. On Christmas Day, 1944, Sergeant Chappuis rode in a B-25 as radioman and gunner, on his first mission. The target: a railroad bridge in Italy's heavily fortified Brenner Pass. After that, in the next seven weeks, there were 19 more missions. The 21st time...
...football field, Junior is the cool, brow-puckering type who insists on shouldering all the worries he can. His big problem is throttling his 175 pounds down to the speed of his interference. Totally unlike most high-pressure halfbacks, he takes high delight in mowing down a rival tackier while running interference for somebody else (he cut down two Duke tacklers with one swoop to make way for a 36-yd. Blanchard touchdown...