PILOT BOAT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Pilot boat

... will miss you, And the old men, too, and the girls; You tossed the other side about as if they were ten-pins; You took Little Bliss under your wing and he ran with the ball like a pilot boat by the Teutonic. You used eyes, ears, shoulders, legs, arms and head and took it all in. You're the best football rusher America, or the world, has shown; And best of all you never slugged, lost your temper or did ...

— Football Days - Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball • William H. Edwards