Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brighter than it is now. The Crimson is in remarkably good physical shape, and has just beaten a team as strong as any it will have to face all year. Its defense has seemed superb--allowing just one touchdown in the last three games. Its fiery little quarter-back, Charlie Ravenel, has greatly picked up offense that was too much given to sputterings and stallings in the early part of the season...
McDonald maintained that de-emphasis of scholarships would meet with resistance--"If you have a scholarship which dates back to the 17th century and you try to change the use of the funds, you have a nearly impossible legal task." He observed that if scholarships are made less desirable, the yearly $1 million earmarked for scholarships that the Financial Office depends upon might easily be lost...
Yovicsin's coaching career goes back to the war years when he taught in a Southern New Jersey high school, coached football there and, practicing nights, played professional football for the Philadelphia Eagles. As Yovicsin puts it, however, "My future was not in pro football, and I wanted very much to stay in the coaching profession. Playing for the Eagles would have kept me away from some of my team's games, so I decided to stop playing." A few years later he returned to Gettysburg, his alma mater, as an assistant coach of football...
...drive started when Bob Foster intercepted a Penn pass on the Harvard 36. The Crimson drove steadily, on fine running by Boulris--28 yards--and Don Gerety--16 yards--to the Penn three yard line. There Johanson called his one obviously bad play of the afternoon. He pitched deep back to Gerety at the ten and the right halfback was stopped by Jacoby, the outstanding player of the day for Penn, for a seven yard loss...
...just as plain as this success is Wright's eagerness to return to creative research. "I've been involved in administrative work since 1942," he notes. "Now I want to get back to the business of writing books." Wright will have this opportunity next year as the recipient of a grant to study at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California...