Word: pigskin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the score 40 to 7, in the third quarter, quarterback Ed Molloy faded back on the Crimson three and heaved the pigskin to Yeager (wearing no. 99). He caught it, shook loose for one yard, and scored...
...strategy on the ensuing kickoff. All kickoffs going more than ten yards are "free" balls--the kicking team can recover. The Green booted short, hoping to regain possession for one final drive. But the ball sailed straight at Crimson guard Art Pappas, who wisely smothered the pigskin and Dartmouth's hopes with...
This intense concern with the near mythical "scholar-athlete" has, however filled some officials with disgust. They are tired of actively seeking after this elusive "glamour-boy" and feel that many a student who doesn't handle a pigskin with an particular adoptness is being ignored and shoved into the shadows...
...Pigskin Parade. In Mount Vernon, Wash., police nabbed Robber George Brodeur, who happily told them: "I'm glad you got me. I'm cold, I'm hungry, and I want to get back to McNeil Island [federal penitentiary] in time for spring football practice...
...Paulo's freewheelers, the biggest and freest is Count Francisco Matarazzo Jr., 51, who may well enjoy the world's largest personal income (after taxes). From his pigskin-paneled countinghouse above Sáo Paulo's Viaducto do Chá, the count* runs his 300 enterprises (textiles, cereals, shipping, refining) in the style of a 16th century Florentine prince. Big, bleak and impeccably dressed, the count operates from a deep couch in the corner of his immense office. Across the room is a board with vertical lines of electric buttons. At a sign from the count...