Word: trapping
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...when the Reds gave up their insistence on the 38th parallel line, and accepted instead the present battle line. Some military bigwigs talked as if peace was just around the corner. But last week the Reds' seeming compliance with Matt Ridgway's demands was spotted as a trap which would bottle up U.N. military strength behind a fixed demarcation line, while the other agenda items were wrangled over endlessly...
Just behind the front lines in Korea last weekend, U.S. soldiers were diligently hunting rabbits. With trap and snare they were also trying to catch rats and mice. There was nothing frivolous about this: the soldiers were medical corpsmen, assigned to help run down an enemy which has killed at least 25 of their buddies and made hundreds ill since June: the virus, or something like a virus, that causes epidemic hemorrhagic fever...
...Crimson attack moved with reassuring authority at all times. Five substained scoring drives proved that this was a team victory, even though hard-driving Tommy Ossman carried the ball over each time. Ossman's superb faking on the optional pitchout play--combined with excellent trap blocking--opened the with excellent trap blocking--opened the defenses every time. And to prove that he wasn't limited to up-the-middle plays, the 192-pound fullback took off on a 20-yard pitchout sweep around right end to score the last touchdown...
...other side rugged Howie Town-send and towering Bob Wiley will likely split the tackles job. Left guard presents the kind of problem any coach likes to face: which of several good men to choose. Dugald Fletcher and "Squire" Squier are two of the better trap-men in the League. But John Turner is also more than skillful, and heady Tom Vickery may yet shift over from right guard...
Behind this quartet, Hyde plans to use another backfield which relies a little more on driving power. Fullbacks Art Levy and John "Bangin'" Tangen, at left half are both runners who should go well on trap plays up the middle. This is also true of right half Frank Hernberg. Clever Bob Whoriskey quarterbacks the second backfield...