Word: chucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strong points in the Eli defense include the guard and linebacker spots. Wolf Dietrich, Bill Kay, Ralph Vandersloot, Stan Riveles, and Chuck Benoit give Yale a contingent of guards that stacks up favorably with any in the League. The Bulldogs are not as deep at tackle and end, however, and this means there is a lot of pressure on linebackers like Chuck Mercein. Pat Caviness, and George Humphrey...
...last Yale point was tallied by manager Chuck Yeager, on a pass from quarterback Ed Molloy. Coach Jordan Oliver had slipped his little manager into the game for one play, and Yeager, wearing No. 99, went almost unnoticed as he caught the aerial on the one-yard line and went over to score...
...contest was hardly a dull one, though. Time and again the Crimson forwards blasted away at the Yale goal as halfbacks Fred Akuffo and Chuck Okigwe fed them the ball and fullback John Stevens cleared on defense. Sometimes the pressing paid off. In the first period Keith Chiappa blasted a goal from ten yards out, and in the third quarter Dave Taft found the nets on another good shot...
...strong halfback trio supplies the major support for the team. Chuck Okigwe, from Nigeria, had trouble early in the season with a knee injury, but has returned to his position as left half. Fred Akuffo fills the right half slot and Bobby Knapp the left half...
What heroics the two teams generated came from the lightweights and rookies, who suddenly discovered muscles they hardly knew existed. "That wasn't my best shot-I still have a little in reserve," insisted the Giants' 175-lb. Second Baseman Chuck Hiller, after he sent Rightfielder Maris back to the wall for a 296-ft. drive in the third game. Sportswriters snickered; Hiller shrugged. Next day, with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Hiller clouted a hanging curve deep into Yankee Stadium's rightfield stands for the first series grand slam ever hit by a National...