Black Shoe Diaries · Sep 27, 2017
Success with Hyperlinking is a Lithe-Limbed Lion
Mark Wogenrich of The Morning Call dives into Penn State’s history to trace the last time the football team won in walk-off fashion in regulation (discounting Barkley’s walk-off run in OT against Minnesota last year). You have to go all the way back to 1929 to find a play that meets the criteria, and it’s worth reading if only to see how sports reporting has changed over the past century. Phrases like, “clutching the pigskin to his breast, the stalwart, lithe-limbed Lion set off toward the Leopard goal line like a frightened fawn,” and, “strong men wept and old men suddenly became strong under the emotional stimulous [sic] of the great victors,” capture the true poetry of football.