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First, there was the Princeton game of '79, in which Scheper scored his only touchdown of the season. "It was a trap play right over my brother's butt." Scheper says. "I gave him the ball afterward. That was such a big thrill for me." Second, there was Harvard's amazing 22-7 upset win over undefeated Yale in New Haven. "I was more excited for Dave than anything else," Scheper says...
Woollcott was born in Redbank, New Jersey in 1887 to a tenacious mother and a slovenly father, and at his mother's insistence, attended Hamilton College. There his flamboyance and decidedly eccentric manner made him the butt of many jokes, until he founded a dramatic society, where his behavior seemed excusable. A "hormonal imbalance" prevented sexual activity, and he readily channeled his energy to food, literary criticism, and the theater. When he graduated he presented himself at the New York Times, and was hired as a staff reporter after six months...
MUCH OF THE SECOND HALF is devoted to a dramatic reading of Woollcott's criticism, an enviable talent he sharpened on the heads of playwrights, actors, friends, and other critics. Finding himself the butt of a rival's column, Woollcott retorted, "An empty taxi pulled up in front of the theater and George Gene Nathan got out." In a review of a play called Number 7, the playwright, he wrote, "has misjudged by five." In another, he suggested that "the lead actor be gently, but firmly, shot at dawn." Yet, he was as lavish in his praise...
...pauses to talk to Baby Love. Most have done hard time. Some push dope, many are boozers. All have bitter wisdom. Crocodile comes by waving a bottle of vodka, his eyes gleaming yellow. He tells Baby Love, "Wait till you do hard time, boy. They'll pat your butt, they'll feel you. You'll come home swishing like a girl." A huge dude, his muscles rippling, speaks in a cool bass: "I got a pah" of $600 lizard shoes and I got silk shirts. I'm the Man, boy. I changes my clothes 15 times...
After the Greater Boston the team hosts Dartmouth on October 16, and then travels to New Haven to butt heads with Yale and Princeton...