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...other Midwestern teams, Allen returned to Kansas and guided the Jayhawks to 24 conference championships. He retired in 1956, leaving a record (771 games won, 233 lost for a .768 percentage over his 46-year career) that stood until 1968-the year one of Allen's own students, Adolph Rupp, broke it. Allen's proudest achievement came in 1936, when, as a result of his one-man crusade, basketball became an Olympic sport...
LEHIGH-PENN--Penn's Veer offense was 11th best in the nation last year, and though Don Clune is finally gone, too many of the faces (QB Marty Vaughn, tailback Adolph Bellizeare) are the same. The season begins tonight on a good note for the Red and Blue. Penn 31, Lehigh...
...PENNSYLVANIA. Penn has perhaps the best-balanced offense in the league. The passing game, led by quarterback Marty Vaughan, was ranked fourth in the nation last offense leader. The Quakers also posses the most explosive back in the league in Adolph Bellizeare. Every time he gets the ball, Bellizeare is a threat to break one off for a long gain...
Perhaps the most famous behavioral analysis was the Hitler study done by Dr. Walter Langer, William's brother, for the U.S. Government during World War II. Declassified in 1972 and published as The Mind of Adolph Hitler, Langer's work proved uncannily accurate; he not only predicted Hitler's suicide, but also that "each defeat will shake his confidence and ... he will probably try to compensate for his vulnerability by stressing his brutality." In fact, Hitler began ordering mass slaughters of the Jews as his military position crumbled. But even Langer calls psychiatric profiles "90% guesswork...
...fact the more fervently practiced. It is the great generator, inspiring the energy that spanned the American continent. It multiplies the wealth, sharpens the wits, creates the nervous dynamism that is called progress. The desire to excel is the adrenaline of competition. If winning does not matter, asked Adolph Rupp, former University of Kentucky basketball coach, why does anyone bother to keep score? Yes, but everyone knows the competitive excesses that inequality also encourages: the ruthless athlete who thinks that sportsmanship is for losers, the politician with the instinct for the jugular, the predatory businessman who exults in crushing rivals...