Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varsity's defensive line, from left to right, consisted of Stretch Mazzone, Howie Boston, Sam Butler, Will Davis, and Pete Leavitt. The second line included Fred Ravreby, Dick Guidera, Bill Rosenau, Doug Bradice, and Bobby Ray. The backers-up were first Phil Isenberg, Paul O'Brien, and West; then Dave Warden, Jerry Kanter, and Chuck Glynn...
Sturdy tackle Will Davis played one of his best defensive games, covering his position well except for one sequence and making many stops outside his area. Both ends performed capably-Stretch Mazzone, who has developed over this season into an excellent defensive end, and Pete Leavitt. The backers-up, Phil Isenberg and Paul O'Brien, also worked commendably, but the big Bruin line found it too easy to open holes in the Crimson forward wall. For a while, Howie Houston looked great on defense...
...night in 1870 an Australian horse-owner named Walter Craig had a dream: the jockeys in the Melbourne Cup race were wearing black armbands, and leading the pack down the stretch was his own horse, a rank outsider named Nimblefoot. When Craig told about his dream, everybody got a good laugh; one bookmaker offered him odds of ?1,000 to a cigar. But it meant nothing to Owner Craig when Nimblefoot, his jockey wearing a black armband, won the big race. Owner Craig had died the day before...
...cutting out the leather uppers. The trigonometry involved would do credit to a Math 1 student. At this point, Mama's work begins; she cuts and sews the uppers to the required size. The selection and cutting of the upper is a difficult process, since all leather will stretch in one direction. The problem is to select a piece of leather with the minimum of stretch, and then cut it so that the stretching will be in the least detrimental direction...
Capot, who has never been beaten at Pimlico, pounded down the home stretch a dozen lengths in front. His time for the mile-and-three-sixteenths: 1:56 4/5, less than a second off the track record he set in winning the Preakness last...