Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlow-coached eleven (and Henry Lamar is trying to make this year's team as close to that ideal as he can) generally lines up in what might be called a modified T, a modified single-wing, or a variation of the Minnesota single-wing, to which list the double-wing was added by the announcer of Saturday's game...
This makes a somewhat lopsided T, since there is no one to balance the tailback. It is very similar to the single-wing, differing only in that the wingback is on the line with the fullback and tailback, instead of being right up on the end's heels. The advantage in shifting him back is that on reverses from the single wing he has to run away from the line of scrimmage to get the ball before cutting upfield to gain yardage, whereas now he avoids this backward motion...
...problem. For example, Joe Lauterbach was trained at Minnesota to pivot slightly to his right, make a "Wave-fake," and then get out of the neighborhood as fast as possible. Now he takes a full turn to the left and, with his back to the line, walts for the wing and/or the tail to go past before the play gets under way, with deliberateness rather than speed the key point in the take...
Even many of Tin Pan Alley's bestsellers, such tunes as You'll Never Know, Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer, There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, were fragrant with hillbilly spirit. All over the country were the Appalachian accents of the geetar and the country fiddle...
Major Alexander Prokovieff de Seversky, the indefatigable exponent of Victory Through Air Power, next week takes wing in a new field. He will write a thrice-a-week column on air tactics and strategy for the McNaught Syndicate. Already signed up: 85 papers, including a fistful of big ones (New York Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Washington Star, Chicago Herald-American, Pittsburgh Press...