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...United States, this time as quarterback for the Florida Blazers of the World Football League. Crone toiled in a similar capacity with the San Antonio Wings for the '75 season, until the league's lamented demise put him out of work. Now a sales representative for a ski-boot company, he admits that people haven't forgotten The Play. "I was wondering when you were going to get to that," he says from his home in Bedford...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Whatever happened to . . . | 11/22/1980 | See Source »

...tasks of the specialty units are thankless. Sprinting headlong down the field to make bone-jarring tackles on kick returns, trying to spring for a long gainer on a return, trotting onto the turf to boot what everyone assumes to be an automatic point after touchdown, punting the ball in gray New England--these are not the things that make the headlines...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Special Specialty Squad | 11/19/1980 | See Source »

...night. The Lake is a world of dreams, of gnawing beavers, whizzing speedboats, amniotic whirlpools, fancy flights and flights of fantasy. Like Orpheus to his river, Joe eventually succumbs to The Lake. He succumbs to wealth, to fame, success and glory. He suffers only the wrenching pain of a boot strap as it pulls itself over a heel...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Conjurer of Words | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

...kicker Dave Cody came in and nailed a 42-yd. field goal, equalling his longest ever. The boot gave Harvard a 3-0 lead with 8:35 remaining in the first quarter...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Harvard Squeaks by Bruins, 17-16 | 11/1/1980 | See Source »

Touches of the old defensiveness remain: Brown students do not like being reminded that Providence looks like an old boot; they do not like being reminded that the grading system there--failed courses magically disappear from transcripts--bears more resemblance to most kindergartens than to serious universities; and if they major in "organizational behavior," they definitely don't want to talk about...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: On Brown and Buckley: College and Quarterback Come Back | 11/1/1980 | See Source »

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