Word: flank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most serious of the Green casualties is Jackie Orr, tough-fibred little half-back. If Orr is unfit for service, Blaik has but three good halfbacks to shoot into the fray--Hutchinson, Hayden, and Arico. In addition, if Krieger is drafted into backfield duty, the flank squad is left very thin. Whit Miller is the only veteran, and he may not be good for 60 minutes of play. Nissen and Kelley are the other wing operatives...
This week it came-a small push along a four-mile front, but the first attack in force the Germans have made. It came along the northern flank through the Moselle Valley-an offensive that an official French communique described as "an attack supported by artillery fire." French outposts were slowly driven back toward the Maginot Line. From the rear came reinforcements and a counterattack and at the end of the day the German infantry had been stopped, at least for the time. But they had pushed back about a mile and a quarter into...
...short day the varsity end muddle was pretty definitely cleared up with the elevation of Joe Koufman to a first-string flank post as Loren MacKinney's running mate, but the satisfaction of Dick Harlow and his aids was short lived when a headache kept Koufman out of all action yesterday...
...take effect at Franklin Field, and the ponderous Penn juggernaut ought to be rolling full blast by this weekend. Featured in their offense is colorful, cocky, and competent Frank Reagan, who does just about everything well. He is equally at home at cutting inside a tackle, skirting a distant flank, throwing yard-consuming passes to a cohort, or getting off high, booming kicks...
...competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost of his specially trained horse (even more necessary to a calf roper than trained ponies are to a poloist). If he competes at steer wrestling, he has to hire a "hazer" (a mounted assistant to flank the steer going out of the chute...