Word: two
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that swept Yankee Stadium, the Air Force recovered an Army fumble, slammed up the middle for a first-period touchdown on a play that crackled with the power of the old flying wedge. But Army slashed back with its customary crisp blocking as All-America Halfback Bob Anderson scored two quick touchdowns, threatened to turn the game into a rout as the half ended...
...linemen, as he desperately retrieved a high center pass and tried to kick on the run. But Mayo got up off the ground, and in the second half, he pulled up the Air Force with him. A daring fourth-down pass put the Air Force on the Army 15. Two plays later, he so artfully faked a hand-off up the middle that the converging Army defense never saw Halfback Mike Quinlan circling left end until it was too late...
With a bare two minutes left, Mayo pulled off the flashiest play of the game: apparently kneeling to hold a field-goal try on fourth down, he carefully kept his knee off the ground, rose to fire a 21-yd. strike to Quinlan to put the Air Force on the Army 21. But when a real field-goal try failed, Mayo and the Air Force had to settle...
...giant hook dangled from a traveling crane. In a freak accident, the hook crashed down on Billy Smith's right leg and severed it just above the knee. For three hours and 35 minutes, Billy Smith's leg was kept with his body only by a two-inch-wide ribbon of skin...
...Before cleaning the leg fully, they stitched together the ends of the main artery, then the main vein. Quickly taking circulation from the trunk, the leg turned from a deathly grey to a normal pink. Then the surgeons cut away the crushed muscle and skin, shortened the bone by two inches (to make up for the lost tissue), sewed...