Word: turtlenecked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Dr. Williams, a shaggy-browed, sot-in-his-ways New Englander, who loved his old checkered cap more than he did the limelight, is less famed than his coaching contemporaries: Chicago's Amos Alonzo Stagg (his friend and football teammate in their turtleneck days at Yale) and Michigan's Fielding H. Yost (his archrival for 20 years). But the good doctor, who practiced gynecology nine months of the year during his coaching days at Minnesota, conceived many football maneuvers-notably the Minnesota Shift, forerunner of all quick shifts-that played an important part in the development...
...trouble that rose from pushing over Elwood outhouses (sometimes with outraged citizens in them), on through college, when he was so pugnaciously nonconformist as to organize the "barbs" against the fraternity men. He had always eventually conformed, but always on his own terms. In his last year as a turtleneck-sweatered roughneck at Indiana University he did join a fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, best on the campus, whose requirements were: a slick blond pompadour and more money than brains. Willkie had neither...
...modern football team to face these defensive shifts sometimes earns more penalties than first downs. Consequently many teams in recent seasons have reverted to old-fashioned signal calling. The new 25-second rule, in the opinion of some strategists, will eventually put huddling on the shelf with turtleneck sweaters and the onside kick...