It was for Pete to take the pigskin in between tackle and guard, and, as he received the leather, Pete made a spring through the hole that was opened for him.
Now's our chance," murmured Phil, as he knelt to take the pigskin when Holly should snap it back.
It was well done, and Cook sent the pigskin sailing far back toward Randall's goal posts.
Holly Cross, as he dug his toe into the pigskin with vicious force.
But then Newkirk took a brace, and held against the rushing tactics of her rival, so that, after getting the ball to within ten yards of the goal line, Randall tried for a field goal, and lost because the pigskin struck the post.
Yet it was always the rule that the new seniors who, during their junior year, had made good records on either the school eleven, or the second eleven, should form the nucleus of the new pigskin squad.
The soreheads, who number a dozen of rather valuable pigskin men, are on strike just because some of us poorer fellows are in it.
Tucking the pigskin under his arm, he jogged back to the twenty-five-yard line.
In two plays Captain Wadleigh had succeeded in advancing the pigskin less than two yards down the Filmore territory.
The pigskin struck the hat full and fair, carrying it from the principal's head.
The pigskinwas only fourteen yards from the Filmore goal line when Captain Wadleigh's men had to see the ball go to Filmore.
With the third play Dick carried the pigskin barely across Filmore's goal line and scored a touchdown.
But the fourth down gave it to their opponents after a loss of two yards, and the pigskin went down again to Harvard's territory, coming to a stop at the white line that marked thirty-five yards.
The elementary tip, that anybody may cut out of a piece of pigskin (fig.
A well-fitting glove may be improved by sewing small pieces of pigskin or other smooth sound leather over the tips of the fingers (see fig.
This time it was Mason who carried the ball, and he squirmed through for two yards outside left tackle, edging the pigskin nearer the center of the goal.
In the same way, he could go after a trickling pigskin and catch it up without falling over himself, though it is possible that his "form" was less graceful than that of one or two of his fellows.
But this time the Blue's center held, and the Farview left half, when friend and foe was pulled from above him, held the pigskin scarcely a foot in advance of its former position.
A plunge off tackle took the pigskin in front of the goal, though there was no gain.
A slide off tackle centered the pigskin and gained a scant yard.
Twice, with plunges at the right of the visitor's line and runs outside her tackles, Hillman's made her distance and the pigskin rested on the thirty-six yards.
And then red-headed Reilly was flat on the yellowing sod, his legs in their torn gray hose inside the field but his body in its sweat-stained jacket well over and the pigskin nestled beneath him in a grip that would have resisted wild horses!
When the whistle again piped the pigskin lay twelve yards nearer the Alton goal and a Mount Millard lineman sprawled protectingly above it.
The pigskin was too near home for comfort, and Ned Richards stepped aside in favor of Browne on second down and Browne punted to midfield.
The pigskinbounded back up the field toward the Alton goal.
Then he was swinging on a heel to dash across the field toward where Moncks, the pigskin clutched tightly, was coming along behind his interference.
After that Alton had pulled herself together, quickly wrested the pigskin from the enemy and taken the offensive.
This time Lorimer ran the pigskin back across one white line before she was stopped.
The pigskin was stepped in and Lorimer found herself in the fortunate position of being in possession of the ball on first down on the enemy’s nineteen yards.
Then Kenly worked a criss-cross of a pattern as old as the hills and got seven yards through Stimson, placing the pigskin on Alton’s thirty-eight.
A desperate fake kick, with Harmon taking the pigskin around left end, had lost the ball on the nineteen.
Lorimer prepared for a placement kick from close to the thirty yards, but the pigskin was taken by quarter through Stimson for two.
Mart Proctor accepted the pigskin and looked it over critically.
Pigskin frequently comes in skins which are too thick for the binder to work easily, or which are very uneven in thickness.
In many cases it is wise to use pigskin or morocco on the back, though if this is done, the cloth sides and the boards themselves may become disreputable before the back is worn.
Whether the same processes could be used on books bound in morocco or pigskin is something that has not yet been determined.
The Debbleby ranch lay among the farther foot-hills of the western range, with the broad gulch of the Pigskin cutting a plain highway through the mountains.
Therefore he lifted his hand in the proper signal for a fair catch and took the pigskin cleanly.
When, a moment or two later, the pigskin came bounding his way over the ground, he flung himself at it only to have it squirm out of his grasp and spin off to one side.
This time Roger kicked, and he lifted the pigskin squarely over the center of the crossbar.
Had Ben found it possible to run barely a trifle faster, he could have carried the pigskinover the line.
He was able to catch punts on the dead run; when he fell on the ball he got it cleanly, never once permitting it to bound away from him; and he could kick, too, his sturdy right leg sending the pigskin sailing far through the air.
He drew out of his breast pocket a newpigskin pocket-book.
Mrs Verloc, undoing some hooks of her bodice, while she went on staring ahead beyond the splashboard, handed over to him the new pigskin pocket-book.
With the pigskin in Cherry Valley's possession on the home team's sixteen yards the half ended.
This time Innes passed low and Freer kicked into the mêlée and the pigskin danced and bobbed around for many doubtful moments before Marvin snuggled it under him on the Morgan's forty-three yards.
Marvin got away for a thrilling run along the side line soon after Morgan's kicked off, and placed the pigskin on the enemy's thirty-four yards after a gain of over forty.
Fortunately Marvin fell on the pigskin for a fifteen-yard loss.
Five times the second was given the pigskin inside the 'varsity's fifteen-yard line and instructed to take it across by rushing and four times they failed.
The pigskin was on the Chambers twelve yards now and Carmine and Captain Innes went back and put their heads together.
Back to the fifteen-yard line went the pigskin before the referee called it down, and Brimfield's supporters cheered.
A weak spot was discovered at right guard, where Gafferty was in Hall's place, and two gains were made there, bringing the pigskin to the twelve yards.
It was Clint who hurled himself at the quarter, wrapped eager arms about his knees and toppled him to earth so savagely that the pigskin bounded out of his clutch.
The result was that the pigskin sailed down the field for anywhere from thirty-five to fifty yards and came down in the most unexpected places.
There was a firm, hollow sound of pigskinmeeting toe and Benz felt the leather whiz past his face.
The pigskin came spinning through the heavy air toward him.
Knapp, Pennington quarterback, captured the pigskin on his fifteen yard line and dodged in behind his quickly formed interference.
Bob showed him how to throw the pigskin and he found it great fun to lay the ball on his hand and sail it through the air in spiral flight after recovering Bob's kicks.
Judd took three short steps and bit his lips as he brought his toe squarely against the pigskin .
The pigskin dropped and his mighty leg swung up to make the punt, but in some unaccountable manner, ball and foot missed connections and Judd described a graceful semi-circle, alighting flat on his back.
Consequently the college turned out almost to a man to watch their idol pigskin chasers maul the scrubs as a final demonstration of their ability to whip Pennington.
Talk about a death grip--they had to pry that oldpigskin loose!
A pigskin library,” I said, in great astonishment.
Sometimes when I come in early from a hunt, I just point blank refuse to write at all, and spend an hour or two reading a book from the ‘Pigskin Library,’ which has been the utmost possible comfort and pleasure.
The famous pigskin library, carried on the back of “burros,” followed him into the jungles of Africa, and was his constant companion at the end of long days during which he had slain the mighty beasts of the tangled forests.
The ‘Pigskin Library’ continues to be a wellspring of comfort.
No time was lost in booting the pigskin out of danger, and before another formation could be made the whistle blew, and the first half was over.
Randall lost the pigskin on fumbles, and when Wescott got it again they kicked a field goal.
The next moment, with considerable speed, thepigskin struck him full in the back.
The Randall line held, and Holly booted the pigskin in fine shape, but with a groan almost of anguish the players and supporters of the college by the river saw the ball strike the cross-bar and bounce back.
Illustration: "The pigskin struck him full in the back"] "Wow!
Shipman, the scrub quarter, passed the pigskin to his right half-back, and the latter hit the line hard.
The backs fell to it with vigor, and the pigskin was "booted" all over the field.
Tom to her, as he booted the pigskin back to Ed Kerr.
The whistle sounded shrilly, and a moment later Pinkey Davenport's good right toe had met the pigskin with a resounding "thump," and the ball was sailing toward the Randall goal.
There was a prompt penalty enforced, and back to the forty-yard line the pigskin was taken, where it was turned over to Randall for another try.
In doing so he knocked from a chair a football, which bounded erratically about the room, as the spherical pigskin always does bounce.
Not until they got up could it be seen if the pigskin was over.
Since she gave me permission," was the answer, and Phil booted the pigskin well down the field.
But there came a change, and when Randall had the pigskin Phil rushed his men up the field to such good advantage that they scored the first touch-down, to the no small dismay of the Wescott team.
But once he had the pigskinin his grasp he eluded the Boxer ends, and was well toward the center of the field before he was downed.
Undyed modern pigskinseems to last well, but some coloured pigskin bindings had entirely perished.
Ox-hide, light or fawn-coloured calf, pigskin and white morocco are leathers suitable for colouring.
The colonel squatted down on the floor cloth of the tent and began to show us one by one the various literary treasures from his pigskin library.
Drawing: The Pigskin Library] I sat on his cot, Mrs. Akeley on a small tin trunk, and Stephenson on another.
Going back to football interests, in the fourth book, "The Winning Touchdown," there will be found many accounts of pigskin matters.
It will be pigskin punts from now on," spoke Tom, as he returned from jabbing a toothpick into the clock's interior, and turned over to doze again.
For an hour Trent sat there looking at the pigskin case.
And while he waited for his hors d'oeuvres he took out a long pigskin cigarette case.
The papers I want are in a pigskin cigarette case, old and worn.
Plain black pigskin is therefore more appropriate and perfectly correct for such occasions.
The best makers usepigskin for covering the seats of nearly all their saddles.
If a belt is worn it should be of plain calf leather or pigskin with a plain buckle.
Most makers usepigskin to cover the leaping iron and pommel.
Please, sir, Mr. Pigskin has called with his little account, and would be very glad if you could let him have the money.
He gasped for breath and struggled; but the strips of pigskin that held his four legs together were numerous and tough.
Time after time he took the pigskin and landed it for a gain.
Still gained two at left tackle and the half ended with the pigskin on Claflin's thirty-eight yards, the score 0 to 0.
Of Brimfield's tallies two were due to the skill of Hatherton Williams, who twice placed the pigskin over the bar for field-goals, once from the twenty-five yards and once from near the forty.
Steve ran a step forward, felt the pigskin settle into his outstretched hands, whirled on his heel and sped toward the goal-line.
There was no scoring in the third period, but the whistle blew with the pigskin down on Canterbury's twenty-five yards and Brimfield with four to go on third down.
With the pigskin on Claflin's thirteen-yard line a score seemed certain.
Instead of booting the pigskin down the field in an honest and earnest endeavour to obtain distance, she deliberately and with malice aforethought, dribbled it on the bias, so to speak, toward the side-line.
Roberts was out of position and the pigskin was intercepted by the Claflin quarter.
The game went on, the second squad bringing the pigskin back twelve yards on the kick-off and then hammering through for fifteen more before the third forced them to punt.
The pigskin soared away from the toe of a second squad forward, was gathered in by a third squad half-back near the twenty-yard line and was down five yards further on.
With the pigskin on Brimfield's forty yards an intricate wing shift failed to fool the Maroon and Whittemore was stopped after a gain of a yard, the ball going to Brimfield.
Brownell swung his leg desperately, trusting to fortune to get the pigskin over the upstretched hands of the charging enemy, but it swung against empty air.
Around the corner came the strong, solid figure of Miss Eliot; behind her trotted a bespectacled young man who carried a pigskin envelope under his arm and whose expression was far from happy.
Oh--er--" he gripped his pigskin folio as if about to search its contents to verify the name.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pigskin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buckskin; ermine; fur; hide; pelt
