Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second quarter of a football game between Texas Christian University and the University of Alabama. Already behind 14-0, the underdog Texans gave the ball to their junior tailback, Kent Waldrep, 20. Sweeping around the right end, he quickly ran into the Crimson Tide's crushing defense. As two players tried to push him out of bounds on the Alabama 40-yd. line, a third crashed into his legs from behind. Waldrep was hit so hard he flipped over and landed headfirst. Texas went on to lose, 41-3. But for Waldrep that game in 1974 was an even...
...basketball was born in a spacious manger by the name of Madison Square Garden on the night of November 24, 1978 and the midwife at courtside was a personable young coach by the name of P.J. Carlesimo. On that night the tiny school in Staten Island defeated nationally ranked Alabama in the Joe Lapchick Memorial Tournament by a score...
Surrounded by his carefree and elated team after the win Carlesimo noted "we weren't looking at this game for one of our wins this year. We've come full circle. We beat Harvard and we beat Alabama and we're going to get well known...
Approval of the decision came clattering off printing presses around the country. The Montgomery, Alabama Observer called it "one more point scored for enlightenment in America," and the New York Post said the move "does Harvard honor." Syndicated columnist Joseph Brainin said that "the President of Harvard acted in the tradition of a great American institution of higher learning. He felt that the Hanfstaengl scholarship at Harvard would be a contradiction of all that great University stands for." In a somewhat different tone, the San Diego Union crowed that by "rejecting a scholarship from a Hitler henchman, Harvard hoists...
Saturday's activities, reminiscent of the highly successful community-interest campaigns which placed recent swimming powerhouses Tennessee and Alabama on the aquatic map, are part of second-year coach Joe Bernal's effort to cultivate student interest in his attempt to create a national caliber swimming program at Harvard...