Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order cook who never played football in high school. Extremely fast for his weight, Leo was the star of the line that held Michigan's great offense to 22 yards net gain by rushing. The other lineman was Penn's 220-lb. Center Chuck Bednarik, alias The Clutch, a bear for handing out punishment...
...incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such near-Rover Boy leadership paid off in the clutch...
Crimson hitting is perhaps the strongest part of the local game. Walt Coulson and Cliff Crosby have both showed good power, and Lennie Lunder and John Caulfield have each hit in the clutch in the last two weeks. Lunder broke up the Colby game with a tenth-inning double, while Caulfield dumped a clean single into center Tuesday to drive in two runs in the ninth against Northeastern...
...Merriwellian drama were not so exciting. The home team built up an early 3 to 1 edge, along which Ira Godin tightrope-walked until three sharp hits and a two-base error in the eighth tied up the contest. Crimson bats were ominously silent all day, the first clutch of three scores coming from a walk, two sacrifices, a balk and only...
...their calling. But within two days after the Times ad, Eserin received applications from 1,500 adventurers willing to scale the heights for $40-$60 weekly. They included a former submarine officer, David Lewis, who had tired of his sedentary office job (see cut), an archeologist, and a clutch of would-be steeple jills...