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Word: wingback (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goldman at wingback, the Tiger backfield is among the toughest the Crimson will face this season. In the same manner that Ravenel has deceived the opposition this year by having halfback Chet Boulris throw sporadic passes, Princeton will deceive the Crimson...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Crimson Challenges Slightly Favored Tigers; 35,000 Expected to Attend Last Home Game | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Bing Crosby's languid baritone drifted through the University of Omaha field house-"drifting and dreaming, while shadows fall." The brawny, crew-cut young men in T shirts and gym shorts couldn't wait for the shadows. A boulder-built (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) wingback named Jerry Hunter sidled up to a hulking (6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs.) Negro tackle named Al Brown and asked: "May I have this dance?" Another time, another place, and Hunter might have earned a poke in the teeth. But this was Physical Education 251, and Tackle Brown minded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

There are other lessons to be learned, too. The class had hardly started last week when Wingback Hunter twisted away from his partner with an expression of considerable pain and asked: "What should you say if the girl steps on your foot?" Another student was apparently faced with the same social problem. "Dammit," came his anguished answer from across the floor, "say 'ouch!'" Sooner or later, every man in the class learns for himself. "One day a guy's a woman, the next a man," explains Brock. Just so his students can tell the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...first score of the game took exactly four plays. After the kickoff, the Crimson was forced to punt from its own ten, and Matt Botsford's kick carried to the 40, where Princeton wingback Bill Danforth took it, cut to the sidelines and went to the six-yard line before being...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Strong Princeton Passing Offensive Defeats Crimson | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

...captained his freshman baseball team, and was a three letter man at Watertown High School. He is a wingback on the varsity football team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simourian Will Lead '57 Nine | 6/14/1956 | See Source »

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