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Quarterback Gerry Harper skirted left end for eight yards on a bootleg play to punch over the game's only score early in the first quarter. Lowell's defense then took control of the game by pinning Quincy inside its own 40-yard line the rest of the afternoon...
When Lee Petty first began driving stock cars, races were run on dusty county-fair tracks and dirt ovals. Purses amounted to a few hundred dollars. Many drivers of that era, folklore has it, learned their trade outrunning "revenooers" on mountainous "white-lightnin' trails," screeching through 180° "bootleg turns" without spilling a drop of moonshine. By the time of Papa Petty's retirement in 1962−induced by a nasty 150-m.p.h. crackup that left him with a limp−the circuit was slightly more respectable and much more lucrative. Today, attracting more than...
What infuriates responsible archaeologists about the bootleg trade is not merely its illegality, or its size, but the fact that it involves a wholesale destruction of knowledge about the past. The traditional excuse of collectors-museums as well as private individuals-has been that the way a vase or a bronze is acquired cannot outweigh the benefits of having it on display to the public...
Although cultivated murmurs of approval have been heard from other U.S. museums, so far only a handful have followed suit. So the bootleg market rises, the plundering goes on and the split between scholars and collectors widens. All of which brings to mind the words of Alfred Jarry's monarch of absurdity, Pa Ubu: "Hornstrumpot! We shall not have succeeded-unless we demolish the ruins as well...
Stoeckel injured his ankle on the last play of the third period as he attempted to score on a bootleg play around right end on fourth down. The junior signal caller was malted for a three yard loss on the play. Stoeckel immediately left the contest, and his ankle "really pulled up" according to Crimson coach Joe Restic Stoeckel is not expected to be available for action this week against Princeton...