Word: throwers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson also has suffered heavy losses in the weight events, in the persons of shot putter Kevin McCafferty and shotputter/weight thrower Jiggetts. Chris Queen and Mitch Whitten may come on strong in the shotput, but no one knows for sure...
...Crimson broke out of the blocks strong, taking 37 of 54 field event points even though a handful of last year's stars graduated. Despite the loss of shotputter Kevin McCafferty, weight thrower Dan Jiggetts (to the Chicago Bears), world-class high jumpers Mel Embree and John McCulloch (to the ozone layer) and several first-rate leapers, the field crew managed to take 13 of 18 places from the Eagles...
High atop a scaffold, a small boy floats out a paper plane. Below a woman in a man's white shirt, braces and pearl gray trousers walks up and down rapidly in a diagonal course. Her head and hands twitch programmatically. Another figure, bent like a discus thrower, balances on one foot and listens raptly to a conch shell. A man dressed like a mechanic, a red wrench protruding from his hip pocket, obsessively chalks mathematical equations in the air. A handsome gray steam engine chugs into view. From the pit a chorus raises a wordless three-note chant...
...better thrower than statistics alone would indicate. They rely on short passes to Bob Farnham quite a bit, though, and that's one of the aspects of their offense that we're going to concentrate on. If we can take that away, they're in trouble...
Restic's concern, not suprisingly, again centers around Geiger, a deceptively good thrower who likes to run as well. "Last week, we were primarily concerned with the option pitch, and not the U.Mass quaterback," Restic said. "Saturday, we have to concentrate on Geiger as well as his pitches to running backs...