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When you turn away from the inexperienced midfields, however, you see nothing but veterans. The big gun on attack this year will be three-year starter Chico McKenzie (36-9-45), who led the team in scoring with 43 points two years ago and had another fine campaign in 1976. A good season would leave him second on the Harvard career lists in both goals and points scored...
...seemed to have everything going for him. Playing a wisecracking Chicano hustler in an East Los Angeles garage, he starred in NBC's three-year-old hit series Chico and the Man. He had just signed a multiyear $1 million contract with Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. He was negotiating film deals with Warner's and Universal. He had filled in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show; more such appearances were in the works. And at the age of 22, he attained one of the highest status roles in show business when he performed for the incoming...
...which led to his first national appearance on the Jack Paar show. Then, in December 1973, his stand-up routine on the Tonight Show thrust him into the big leagues: he had caught the eye of James Komack, who was casting his generation-and ethnic-gap sitcom. With Chico a winner, Prinze had reached...
Prinze liked to tell interviewers that the Chico character "is very close to me. He comes out an optimist, very ambitious and hardworking. He's made something of a life that could have made him bitter." But for one of the most singular escape stories in ghetto history, escape was not enough...
Died. Freddie Prinze, 22, comic and star of television's Chico and the Man; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles (see THE NATION...