Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIREMEN'S BALL. Director Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde) has fashioned a frothy, funny parody-fable of Communist bureaucracy from a slight anecdote about a group of firemen who stage a party in honor of their retiring chief...
...Lancaster, Ohio, barber, Kern was a high school star in football and basketball and was persuaded to at tend Ohio State with the offer of being allowed to play both sports. In the Rose Bowl, his ball handling was superb. Play after play, his fakes fooled NBC television cameramen so badly that they lost the action entirely. A 69-yd. Ohio State drive ended with Fullback Jim Otis scoring from the one; a 50-yd. drive to the Trojan 10 enabled Kicker Jim Roman to make good on a 26-yd. field goal with three seconds left...
...second half was all Ohio State. Capitalizing on fumbles by Simpson and U.S.C. Quarterback Steve Sogge, Kern kept the Buckeyes in control of the ball. He lobbed two touchdown passes and easily earned selection as the game's most valuable player...
...Campbell made it to the Kansas 3-yd. line. On third down, Burkhart rolled out for the score. His pass for a two-point conversion failed, but Kansas was penalized for having twelve men on the field. On the second try, Burkhart handed off to Campbell, who carried the ball over for the victory. A later look at game films indicated that Kansas may have had twelve men on the field for at least the last three plays. Quipped one Kansas coach: "No wonder we were able to stop them. The 6-3-3 defense is pretty tough...
Fourteen seconds remained. Harrison hoped to isolate one of the big men under the basket, but Harvard had trouble putting the play into operation and finally, Gustavson, who had just made a spectacular save to keep the ball in play threw up a 20 footer from the top of the key. It hit the rim and time ran out before the Crimson could get the ball up again...