Word: throwed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yovicsin named ball-handling, field generalship, quickness more than speed, and throwing skill as prime attributes of his quarterback, with ball carrying secondary. "We like to throw the ball," he explained...
...Geordie's world. Geordie is painfully tiny as a bright young lad. He enrolls in Mr. Samson's Home Bodybuilding Course. When next seen, at the age of twenty-one, he is a well-built tower, about six and one-half feet high. He wins the hammer throw in the Olympics, and then promptly renounces athletics to return to his highland lass, and to resume the idyllic life as the Laird's head gamekeeper, in the glen...
Almost before little Jim learned to walk, father taught him to play ball. Every day after school he made the boy run. slide, throw, catch until his hands hung dead on his wrists. "We're going for the big leagues, boy," he would mutter fiercely, and the child would nod fiercely in agreement. At 17 Jim was a spectacular outfielder whose all-round talents won the state championship for his high-school team; but his father was never satisfied. "How'd I do, dad?" Jim asked anxiously after playing a prodigious game. And father implacably replied...
Outside of these, however, little is certain. In the weight, for instance, if Pete Harpel can get off a good throw (he has fouled some 60-foot throws in practice) he could win. Or he could place no higher than fourth. If shotputter Jim Doty can get off a toss similar to his winning throw in the Army meet, he, too, could pick up valuable points...
With just an average goalie in the cage for the Elis, no one could possibly guess what the score would have been. But Yale's Gerry Jones again performed incredibly in the nets, especially in the third period when practically the only defense the exhausted Yale team could throw up was to lie down in front of the net to stop the shots of the Crimson...