Word: crone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as the World Football League was born, former Crimson gridders like Rod Foster, Bill Craven, Ted DeMars and Eric Crone have had a chance to try out with the big boys. While only Foster and Craven have broken into the lineup in the new league, it is an indication that more will come...
...this affair between Harvard and its more physically endowed, comes a different sort of hero. Eric Crone was such a man. Crone, the quite-often-inconsistent quarterback of Joe Restic's razzle-dazzle ball club, gained immortality among the Crimson football faithful during the Yale game of 1971. With Harvard ahead by a slim lead and little time remaining on the clock, Crone was sent in to eat up time. Eric managed, however, to take the ball into his own end zone and was thumped for a safety. From then on he would be known as "Endzone" Crone, a name...
...Restic's systems are a lot more complex than the Ambassadors or the Cardinals or the Canadian League. He also likes to throw a lot and that helped my quarterback development too," Crone said...
...Crone was the first Harvard athlete to be drafted by a professional team since Carter Lord '68. He received immediate fame and a nickname during his sophomore year by leading an underdog Harvard team to victory over Yale, and wandering into his own end zone on the last play of the game for a two-point safety...
...Although Crone is optimistic about his chances with the Ambassadors, he said that this tour will definitely be his last shot at the pro football ranks. The quarterback said reluctantly that, "This is it--if I don't make it this time I will stop playing...