Word: pigskin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three seasons of following the Crimson's brand of pigskin pitching have at least partially convinced me of my error. I still prefer those titanic struggles like last year's Notre Dame Orange Bowl victory over Alabama, but the 45-3 pastings of hapless opponents I can do without...
...days are noticeably cooler than only a few weeks ago, and, for many, sleep finally comes easily at night. Autumn has arrived--a time for inflating the presidential pigskin. The season of year has proved enough to raise the spirits of the nation's number one football fan. Mr. Nixon, we are told, is on the rebound...
Sophomore quarterback Tom Doyle, who gained 160 yards himself against Dartmouth last week, conducts the Eli onslaught. He either feeds the pigskin to burly fullback Tyrell Hennings, who averages 4.4 yards per carry up the middle, or tosses it to speedsters Dick Jauron and Rudy Green, who are dangerous outside ramblers...
...Willie Namath, should suffer such a fate. But he has always been the same kind of rococo rascal that Jones was. As a child Joe Willie was, by his own cheerful confession, an occasional thief and vandal. In his youth he ignored his studies for the pursuit of pigskin and other cutaneous diversions. In setting a career for himself as a professional quarterback, Joe snubbed the St. Louis Cardinals of the older National Football League in favor of the New York Jets of the lowly American Football League-for a record bonus...
Last month, after only two-and-a-half weeks of kicking a pigskin, Gomez signed a contract with the New England Patriots. "I went to their scout and asked him for a tryout. I kicked field goals for about 40 minutes, and he was very impressed," Gomez said...