Word: calvinism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hill and Dowling have not opposed each other on the gridiron yet, but they still keep in contact. "I talked with Calvin this summer," Dowling said yesterday, "We were supposed to get together but the Cowboys changed their schedule...
Tyrell got interested in Yale after he read about the great Eli running back, Calvin Hill, and decided he would like to go there. But although enemy tacklers could not catch up to him on the field, this time he was brought down by our school's deteriorating academic program. Although his grades were high, he faltered in his college boards. He had done more than had been asked of him in a neighborhood where to succeed merely meant not joining the powerful Blackstone Rangers, but he had difficulty performing in something for which he had never been prepared...
Tyrell set his rights on Yale after he read about Calvin Hill. Because Gale Sayers was also his hero, senior year he began dubbing himself "The Gale from Yale." But the Ivy League required good SAT scores and, in our non-academic high school. Tyrell had not been prepared for college. He got good grades, but his boards were low. His mother, a strong-willed black woman, called me after he got his scores back, worried about his chances for college. I told her not to worry, but things did not look good...
Jauron's third score raised his career total to 26, erasing a Yale record set by Calvin Hill...
Neither candidate campaigned in the Mormon State, and Nixon won 75 per cent of Utah's vote, as expected. Spiting their tickets dramatically. Utahians returned popular Democratic Governor Calvin Rampton to office with 70 per cent of the vote against hapless Republican Nicholas Strike...