Word: lineman
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Center: E. J. (for Emil Joe) Holub, 22, Texas Tech; 6 ft. 4 in., 217 Ibs. "The nation's No. 1 lineman. Runs the 100 in 10.5. He's a pro right now-they don't call him 'The Beast' for nothing...
...missed goal came with about two minutes to go in the game and the score tied at one all. At 0:39 of the following sudden-death overtime, St. Lawrence lineman Joe Corby topped off a traditional three-on-two play with the score that won the game...
Although Sweeney abandoned his goalie-trampling tactics for the most part this year, he was effective enough to move up from last year's second-team all-Ivy position. Sweeney was a rugged, hard-driving lineman, and scored several key goals...
...hoop to tap in rebounds. Agile as an acrobat, he seemed to hang suspended in mid-air while he faked his man, then got off shots whirring with English that flicked wickedly off the backboard and into the basket. When the need arose, he simply used his football lineman's build (6 ft. 5 in., 235 Ibs.) to overpower any player foolish enough to block his path. In the first quarter alone, Elgin Baylor, 25, Negro star of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Lakers, scored 15 points against the hapless New York Knicks. At half time...
Last week President Philip Sporn of the American Electric Power Co. Inc. announced that his company has adopted a new "bird" technique of working on high-tension lines. The lineman does not climb the tower. Instead, he sits in a plastic bucket and is raised to the wire by a truck-mounted boom made of insulating fiber glass. When he reaches the wire, he clamps to it a cable that is connected to metal mesh lining the bucket. This operation sounds suicidal, but it is not. The current moves into the mesh, charging it along with the lineman...