Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio. Whenever he arrived in a city-in Accra, Kano, Ibadan, Kumasi, Lagos and Enugu-huge crowds turned out to cheer him, including the "all-powerful" King of the Ashantis, King Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. The object of all this adulation was U.S. Trumpet Ace Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, on a gravelly-voiced West African tour last week designed to persuade Africans to drink more Pepsi-Cola. Admission fee to the outdoor concerts by Satchmo and his six All-Stars: five Pepsi-Cola bottle tops and 1 shilling...
...varsity's reserve strength is excellent on the line, and not so sparkling in the backfield. If halfback Hobie Armstrong ever learns to follow his interference instead of running over it, he will be a threat every time he gets the ball, but against Dartmouth he had trouble breaking even. Still, Armstrong, Hank Hatch, Glenn Haughie, and Tom Boone provide adequate, if not equally skilled, relief for the first foursome...
That was the turning point. The Crimson drove to the 20, lost the ball on downs, then scored on its next series with MacIntyre's reverse pass. ARMSTRONG (40), the Crimson's sophomore halfback, takes a nose dive in the Dartmouth game...
Bruce MacIntyre was fuming by the time he got into Saturday's game. Last Monday, the senior halfback failed to show up for practice, probably out of general discouragement. And then, after two years of playing behind Chet Boulris, he found himself on the bench again, as Hobie Armstrong drew the starting left half assignment...
...Maclntyre was not in a particularly jovial mood when he took over for Armstrong midway in the first quarter. On his first running play, he gained 15 yards, and soon after, with second and 22 on the Harvard 24, he tossed a 23-yard pass to Larry Repsher...