Word: wingmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Woodie Grimshaw and Bud Schuster, the two regular wingmen, will start at the ends, while Big Bill McClellan and Captain Jim Lalikos will be in the tackle berths. McClellan, 220-pound tackle, has been one of the Bruin stars after being hampered by a pre-season leg injury that kept him out of the first few games...
Jacunski will find at least four experienced wingmen on hand when practice starts next, fall, which gives the Varsity as much pre-season depth at that position as any Crimson coach has seen in years. The returning quartet, whose members all performed in the 1942 season, includes Pete Garland, Wally Flynn, Len Cummings, and George Boston...
...filled by Bob Gardner and Bob Cowen, the latter having proved his worth, last Monday, as an ice as well as a gridiron star with some nice body checking. Cowen, incidentally, winds up his college career next month. Barry Carson and Bill Glidden will probably hold down the wingmen jobs, with Bill Ayres as center...
...most important hold-overs from Harlow and Harvard strategy of yore is the policy of kicking on third, and sometimes second, down. Designed to "make the break" for the Crimson, the idea depends on a high-calibre punter and fast wingmen. The point, as illustrated amply in the W. P. I. encounter by booter Walt Coulson and several hard-charging Lamar linemen, is to keep kicking after one or two running plays, until a break comes, in the form of a fumble by the punt-returner, or a blocked kick...
Your account of Colonel Roberts and the 480th Anti-Submarine Group (TIME, Dec. 20) warmed the hearts of all of us who were formerly engaged in the Anti-Submarine Command. . . . These men never had the comforting feeling of wingmen in close formation. They were strictly lone wolves, and there's a hell of a lot of water in the Atlantic Ocean...