Word: wristlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duffy's is the only banter. There is no skylarking; this is grim business. Almost every player wears a reminder of just how rugged Big Ten football can be. Peaks runs with a brace on one knee; a leather wristlet, nearly as heavy as a Roman boxer's cestus, supports the thick right wrist of Sophomore Jerry McFarland, a Negro tackle out of Alabama. Tackle Pat Burke lisps through the gap where most of his front teeth once stood...