Word: valveless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wash Tubbs, after the stubby comic strip character of that name. Eighteen years a coach, he can best be identified nationally as the inventor of the quick-kick, as one of the first to conduct summer schools for coaches, and as the holder of lucrative patent rights to valveless, seamless footballs and basketballs and elastic ribbed football pants. All-Americans Ernie Nevers of Stanford and Pat Boland of Minnesota first took grid-iron lessons from him in Superior, Wis. Pat accompanies him from Miami University to act as Hawkeye line coach...