Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penn Coach Howie Dallmar plans to start Beck at center, with Heylmun and Captain Don Scanlon playing forward. Tom Holt and Bob Brooks, both well under six feet, will team at the guards...
...mainstay of the Quaker attack is Ernie Beck, a 6'4" junior. Shepard calls Beck an "amazing ball player who can jump like a man 6'8" and move like a guard." Beck can score too, as evidenced by the fact that he led the Ivy League last year in scoring with 558 points, and is tied with sophomore teammate Dick Heylmun with a 17 point average in this year's League play...
...romped over Louisiana State, 25-7. Coach Bobby Dodd's Rambling Wrecks have engineered three of the most startling upsets of the young season (over Southern Methodist, 21-7; over Florida, 27-0; over Kentucky, 13-7). The standout in a light (181 Ib.) defensive line: Guard Ray Beck, who averages 50 minutes a game. The offensive spark of the T attack: Quarterback Darrel Crawford, with a 56% record of his passes completed this year...
...took Donald and the hunk of metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk was solid...
...chemist asked: "Have you been handling this stuff?" When he learned that they had, he advised them to get an immediate medical checkup. La Paz and Beck tried to hide their fear by kidding. Said Beck: "You're going to look good, focusing a telescope with your teeth." Countered La Paz: "And what will people think of one of the country's best bridge players shuffling cards with his elbows...