Word: booe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Billy Booe, a Bridgeport, Conn. businessman (corsets and brassieres) who made a name for himself (1946-48) kicking field goals and points after touchdown in the Yale Bowl, pushed with surprising persistence into the semifinals. Booe himself had not expected to last so long. "I didn't bring enough clothes with me," he complained. "I expected to be on my way home Tuesday...
Improving steadily after his first-round scare, Ward came up against Booe in the semifinals and took his measure. In the finals, against Bill Hyndman, 39, a Pennsylvania insurance executive who won the Philadelphia Amateur 20 years ago, Ward could do no wrong...