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...earning All-America honors twice during his prep school career, Seelen drew the attention of college coaches around the country. In the end, he spurned scholarship offers from a number of other schools, including Duke and UVA, to follow an older brother to Harvard...
...rankings in both major wire service polls) in the school's history. Walker gained 150 yds. on 36 carries. Aside from that, the team was minus 30 yds. on the ground and only plus 7 in the air. But it was a tenacious defense, led by All-America Cornerback Scott Woerner, that helped force Notre Dame errors and won the day for Georgia: a blocked field goal, three interceptions, a fumble recovery and a kickoff that the Bulldogs picked up on the 1-yd. line after Notre Dame's receivers, confused by crowd noise, missed their signals...
Consider high school, for example. Local pundits say Buckley's junior year at Marblehead High School ranks as one of the the best season performances in recent history. He brought his team to a share of the 1973 conference championship and earned All-America honors. He threw for 1800 yds. and 17 touchdowns, and his 21 for 30, 265 yd. performance against Sqampscott (and future teammate Tom Beatrice) was not atypical. So the college scouts came sniffing...
...next eight years Bryant was head coach at the University of Kentucky. In 1950 the school won its only outright championship of the Southeastern Conference. He was demanding. All-America Quarterback Babe Parilli, who later played with the Boston Patriots, recalls preseason training camps that began at 5:30 a.m. with orange juice and proceeded to head-on tackling drills at 6 a.m. He also remembers Bryant's coming into his hospital room the day after Parilli underwent surgery and throwing a stack of new plays on the bed. The plays were designed to let Parilli stand back...