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Today's Tidbit... Dick Tamburo and Cup Protection
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Aug 27, 2022
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Following up on the Tidbit from several days ago about the body or rolling block, Today's Tidbit looks at pass blocking in the early 1950s. The illustration shows Dick Tamburo, a center and linebacker at Michigan State who was a first-team All-American for the Spartans in 1952. 

'Michigan State's Dick Tamburo,' Pensacola News Journal, November 9, 1952.

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