Charlton, still only 19, was selected for the game, which saw United goalkeeper Ray Wood carried off with a broken cheekbone after a clash with Villa centre forward Peter McParland.

Tittle was using one that season as he nursed a fractured cheekbone – the injury contributed to their development.

Santo became the first player in major league history to wear a batting helmet with protective ear flaps, when in 1966, in the midst of trying to break the Cubs ' modern consecutive-game hitting streak record of 27 games ( set by Hack Wilson in 1929 ), Santo was sidelined for nearly two weeks following a pitch thrown by the Mets ' Jack Fisher ( beaning ) that fractured his cheekbone and ended his consecutive playing streak.

6 people were injured including a cook who suffered a fractured cheekbone as he was walking down a set of stairs.

He failed to fully settle in Italy and was beset by media interest and injury, breaking his cheekbone in April 1993 and his leg a year later ; the latter injury keeping him out for the majority of the 1994 – 95 season.

In 1984, Messier was suspended for 10 games for cracking Jamie Macoun's cheekbone in a fight during a game against the Calgary Flames on December 26.

Ron Santo was an early pioneer of wearing earflap helmets at the major league level, upon returning to action after having his left cheekbone fractured by a pitch in 1966.

In the fight Willard was later reputed to have suffered a broken jaw, cheekbone, and ribs, as well as losing several teeth.

Conigliaro, batting against Jack Hamilton, was hit by a pitch on his left cheekbone, and was carried off the field on a stretcher.

When Johnson was playing for Nottingham Forest the previous season, he had fractured Santos ' cheekbone and seriously damaged his eye socket with a swinging elbow.

Paul Gascoigne was forced to wear a Phantom of the Opera style facemask to protect his fractured cheekbone until his injury healed.

On November 3, 1986, while practicing for a seven-game series between Major League and Japanese All-Stars, Gedman was struck by a warmup pitch from Detroit Tigers pitcher Willie Hernandez, resulting in a fractured cheekbone.

This was in spite of a collision at home plate with John Stearns during a game against the Mets on June 30, 1978 in which Parker fractured his jaw and cheekbone ; he wore a facemask in order to minimize his time away from the lineup.

Ron Santo, who thought he'd lost an eye when his cheekbone was broken by a pitch in 1966, rushed back to the lineup.

It was while carrying out a reconnaissance of the enemy near Monchy that the GOC 8th Cavalry Brigade, Brigadier-General Charles Bulkeley-Johnson, was struck by a bullet hitting his head full on the cheekbone.

In a tour match against Somerset, he was hit by a bouncer by bowler Andre van Troost, shattering his cheekbone.

He tried to take the fight to Hamed but paid the price, when he was caught by a right-hand that broke his nose and his cheekbone.

However, just two games later, McEveley fractured his cheekbone in the 20th minute of the game against Middlesbrough, and was initially ruled out for six weeks.

" It was supposed to be a routine operation to pull the cheekbone out but just before that my heart decided to stop on the operating table.

He played for the British Lion on the 1971 tour to New Zealand, but was invalided out of the tour in Canterbury, after multiple punches by the opposition fractured his cheekbone.

On the Lions tour to New Zealand in 1971 he replaced another Scottish loosehead prop Sandy Carmichael who was unlucky to be punched and suffer damage to the cheekbone in Canterbury.

Twice a member of the British Lions in 1989 ( Australia ) and 1993 ( New Zealand ) where he suffered a shattered cheekbone and did not play against the All Blacks.

In 2005 Spencer lost form early in the Super 12 competition and then suffered a fractured cheekbone in training.

Martin punched Brewer in the right eye, breaking his cheekbone.

Donovan sustained a slight leg injury, but the rear-view mirror entered Coca's right eye, smashing her cheekbone.

Cheeks are fleshy in humans and other mammals, the skin being suspended by the chin and the jaws, and forming the lateral wall of the human mouth, visibly touching the cheekbone below the eye.

Facing Red Sox outfielder Tony Conigliaro, who was set in a stance close to home plate, Hamilton hit Conigliaro with a pitch on the left cheekbone that fractured his cheekbone and eye socket and severely damaged his retina.

Martin punched Brewer in the right eye, breaking his cheekbone.

Frenchman Bernard Thevenet took over the lead, and after Merckx fell and broke his cheekbone, he was unable to take back the lead, and Thevenet became the winner of the race.

His only external injuries were a slight graze on his cheekbone and a cut to his temple, but he sustained permanent brain damage in the accident and was left paralysed and unable to speak.

During his tenure, Laws became famous for a changing-room altercation after a defeat at Luton with Italian striker Ivano Bonetti, which left the latter with a broken cheekbone, and caused the popular player to leave the club at the end of the season.

Zedník, who had scored both goals for Montreal in the 5 – 2 loss, suffered a fractured cheekbone, broken nose, and a concussion.

Draper suffered a concussion, broken jaw, broken nose and broken cheekbone, all of which all led to Draper having reconstructive surgery on his face having his jaw wired shut for several weeks.

In FA Cup finals over the previous decade, there had been a notable amount of teams reduced to ten men or hampered considerably by hard, spiteful or accidental challenges from opposition players, including two goalkeepers suffering a broken neck ( Bert Trautmann, 1955 ) and broken cheekbone ( Ray Wood, 1957 ) respectively ; two wingers in successive years being stretchered off with broken legs ( Roy Dwight, 1959 and Dave Whelan, 1960 ) and a full back left hobbling for three quarters of the game with a damaged ankle ( Len Chalmers, 1961 ).

Carmichael is mainly remembered for being the victim of violence in the 1971 tour where he received five fractures of the cheekbone, yet still played until final whistle.

A fractured cheekbone sustained against West Ham United, however, looked like it had ruled Schwarzer out for the rest of the season, but he returned for the UEFA Cup final against Sevilla, albeit playing with a protective mask.

He suffered badly with injuries early on at Tottenham, sustaining a fractured cheekbone against Chelsea, a bad injury that ruled him out for almost the entire season.

Van Troost was an aggressive bowler: In 1995, whilst playing for Somerset, he bowled a bouncer to West Indies captain Jimmy Adams, fracturing the batsman's cheekbone.

On 27 March 2008 he joined Southampton on loan for the rest of the season as a replacement for Andrew Davies, who broke his cheekbone and was ruled out for the remainder of the season.

The zygomatic arch or cheek bone is formed by the zygomatic process of temporal bone ( a bone extending forward from the side of the skull, over the opening of the ear ) and the temporal process of the zygomatic bone ( the side of the cheekbone ), the two being united by an oblique suture ; the tendon of the Temporalis passes medial to the arch to gain insertion into the coronoid process of the mandible.

During the season, I got in a collision with a goalkeeper, the ball got played through, I went up to head over him and he came out, punched me straight in the face and broke my nose and cheekbone.

* Figure-eight: Also called a crossed, Grackle or Mexican noseband, this noseband crosses from the top of the ckeekbone on one side, over the nose to the chin groove on the other side, under the horse's chin, and back up to the opposite cheekbone.