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...assembled throng could rave, and will undoubtedly as the season progresses, about forward John Connors, who specialized in backward, over-the-shoulder layups, and center Dave Slattery, a 6 ft., 3 in. operative with a deadly eye and a knack for un-center-like dribbling...
...advance to independence, Britain has heaped him with honors and his native admirers hail him as "The Black Rock of Nigeria." (As a devout Moslem, the title he prizes most is that of alhaji-one who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca.) In his drive to lift his backward land into the 20th century, Balewa's piercing eyes exude calm and sureness, and he rarely speaks in anger. "He is," says a longtime British acquaintance, "perhaps the perfect Victorian gentleman. He simply will not be rushed...
...hardly back from his year in London when the northern emirs, suddenly confronted with the need to find literate occupants for the northern seats in the federal assembly, pressed him into service. Like the emirs themselves, Abubakar started off with the fear that in a unified Nigeria the backward North itself would be swamped by the vigorous, better educated South. "Nigerian unity," he told the assembly, "is only a British intention for the country. It is artificial, and ends outside this chamber...
...stay loose for the Harvard game, Yale used a gag inspired by the hours of watching game movies being run forward and backward to show each man his job. During practice, someone would yell "Stop!" Immediately, the players would stop going forward and start running backward to their original spots-exactly like a reversed movie. As it turned out, that was the only time all year long that Yale moved backward...
...little later, after Bill Swinford had intercepted a Singleton pass, the varsity was back at midfield, but, on the first play of the second quarter, the Elis got their second big break. Ravenel went back to pass, and, apparently finding all downfield receivers covered, tossed a backward pass for Tom Boone. Hutcherson (who "just happened to be there," according to Olivar) grabbed the ball in full flight and went all the way untouched. The saddest part was Ravenel, obviously still bothered by his knee trouble, in futile pursuk...