Word: allards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only it can get by Boston University in the opening round. The team visits Providence Saturday night to play Brown in its second Ivy League contest. The Bruins will be reinforced for the second half of their schedule by high-scoring linemen Bill Sepe and Ed Allard...
...giving a new push to auto racing in the U.S. and at the same time relaxing his command's normally tense pace. Up to 65,000 paying spectators turned up for the shows. LeMay wistfully refrained from driving in the races, but friends jockeyed his $4,500 Cadillac-Allard around the courses. LeMay's purposes in promoting the races: 1) to give his high-grade tinkerers a useful hobby, and 2) to raise money (the races have netted about $335,000) for such niceties as innerspring mattresses, window fans, pool tables and TV sets for enlisted...
...drives an Oldsmobile 98 (his top speed: 65 m.p.h.) had already won his campaign: while the investigation was still on, the Air Force had quietly dropped the finish flag on the races, canceling all that had not been contracted for. Curt LeMay had long since sold his Cad-Allard and was driving in a more sedate sports car of his own building-an old Indianapolis frame, a sleek plastic body, a souped-up Cadillac engine with Hydra Matic transmission...
...Downs. Since then, U.S. road racing has had its ups & downs. In 1950, Sam Collier, a close friend of Cunningham and one of the original Sports Car Club enthusiasts, was killed in a Ferrari in the Watkins Glen Race. Two years later a skidding Cadillac-Allard killed a youngster who was watching from a Watkins Glen sidewalk. The same year, a driver was killed at Bridgehampton. Again there was a public hue & cry, an echo of the Vanderbilt Cup days, and road racing was on its uppers...
...Sebring's zigzag course had already taken a breakdown toll of cars-among them two British Aston-Martins and a Cadillac-Allard-and soon flagged down more. Fangio's Lancia went out with what the Lancia pits called ignition trouble (the word went round that it had really suffered a broken gearbox or a snapped rear axle). Midway, Taruffi's Lancia (No. 38) held the lead, but Ascari's Lancia was out with clutch trouble...