Word: chips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutiae. Formed the same year as the Broncos, the Cowboys have been, over the past 18 seasons, the most successful team in football. Dallas devised a computerized scouting system that catalogued the requirements of the sport in fractions of inches and split seconds. The Cowboys have turned up blue-chip players with clockwork regularity, including prospects found in fields foreign to the gridiron. Track stars, basketball players ?not to mention the occasional Heisman Trophy winner?have contributed to the impressive return on Dallas' investments: the play-offs eleven times in the past twelve years, five National Conference titles...
Havens dropped a close match to Chip Lindquist...
...Strains of "Alvin and the Chipmunks sing the songs of Christmas" will soon be vying with Dad's classical music for stereo time; hte battle looms. I'm not climbing the walls to leave yet; but this weekend, when my roommate and I launch the first annual "Chocolate Chip Cookie Uncooked Dough and Finished Product" munch-out, the official count-down will begin. Unofficially, it's 16 days until Christmas...
That face belongs to freshman Olympian Bobby Hackett. Hackett, silver medalist in the 1500 meters at Montreal, gold medalist at the 1975 Pan American games, and two-time A.A.U National champion, is the kind of blue-chip athlete and personality who can transform a fairly strong program into a great one, who can attract name swimmers from all over the country, who can catapult a team into the national rankings--in short, the kind of athlete who comes to Harvard very rarely...
...youngsters learned quickly and, with the handful of blue-chip upperclassmen anchoring a green team, Akers' prodigies became a scourge, ranking in the nation's top five in fewest points allowed and in total points scored. Says Senior Guard Rick Ingraham: "Things were different with Coach Akers and his staff-just the electricity they were generating. I can't remember being so enthused to go out and play...