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Varsity Football--Major Football H--John T. Anderson, George L. Batchelder 3d, Jerome H. Blitz, Richard J. Clasby, Robert N. Cochran, Thomas J. Coolidge, Jr., Robert R. Cowles, Howard A. Cox, Paul J. Crowley, Nicholas G. Culolias, John C. Culver, Richard T. Duback, John H. Ederer, Thayer Fremont-Smith, Arthur E. French Jr., Samuel H. Fyock, 3d, Robert B. Hardy, Arnold Horween, Jr., John J. Jennings, Albert L. Lemay, Eli Manos, Ronald J. Messer, William E. Monteith Jr., John D. Nichols Jr., Ronald P. Noonan, Bernard E. O'Brien, Gilbert W. O'Neil, Arthur M. Pappas, Floyd H. Popell, Henry...
After being a schoolteacher and a coach, Rice E. Cochran thought he knew and liked boys. When a local minister asked him to take over the church Boy Scout troop, he was happy to agree. Now, 20 years later, he has published the results of that decision in a new book called Be Prepared!* (Sloane, $3.50). Though he writes under a pseudonym (he is now an NBC scriptwriter) and keeps his town anonymous, Cochran manages to paint a lively, hair-raising picture of what it is like to be one of the most bothered and bewildered of U.S. educators...
...collapse by the side of the road and gasp, 'Go on without me. I can't make it.' " Once home, however, the boys soon forget their difficulties. "Gee, it was great!" they tell their parents. "We waded for miles in the brook and hit Mr. Cochran right in the face with a tomato and put rocks in his pack till he could hardly walk . . . Boy, we had a keen time...
Over the years Rice Cochran became used to having rocks in his pack. He was badgered by nervous mothers, harassed by peremptory fathers ("Pay attention to me, young man. My boy must be senior patrol leader of your troop! That's my last word"). He was the victim of strange rumors ("The scoutmaster handled our financial campaign very well. He got a new Buick out of it"), was accused of being a Communist (he had taught the boys to sing a college song, Sons of the Stanford...
...news of an afflicted boy," says Cochran, "seems to rouse other boys . . . This first became apparent to me . . . when I met a Scout named Alan Wylie . . . Alan Wylie . . . was blind . . . Yet he was determined to become an Eagle, and the rest of his troop was determined that he should. They took him everywhere. He was a nuisance on hikes, but the troop slowed d.own to his pace, and detoured around the invitingly rugged areas which might have been troublesome...