Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was another reason for sadness. During the last year or so, the faculty at Holy Cross has been trying to get football changed so that it isn't an inter-collegiate sport. The faculty was concerned, these scribes told me that Holy Cross would earn a reputation based solely on athletic prowess and not academics. This was not a good image to project the faculty thought, though I'm sure the students aren't too bothered by it. Naturally, they are bothered by the suggestion that football be de-emphasized. It's like telling Haystacks Calhoun...
...Holy Cross fans like a particular kind of football-good, crisp football. The crowd on the far side rose to its feet after defensive back Mike Jordan collided with big Pete Varney, causing Pistol Pete to get up a little slowly. It was the play of the day. Of course, Varney wasn't hurting very long, but the fact that any back could hit Varney with such results is surprising...
...game. We could have gotten over it quickly, and think of the happiness at Worcester. Think how much nicer it would have been for Tom Yewcie, former punter and quarterback for the Boston Patriots who was sitting behind me in the press box as a coach for Holy Cross. Holy Cross did not do everything right Saturday, and when errors were made, it was up to Yewcic to point a number of them out, which he did with gusto. I winced when Neil Hurley made that important interception because I knew that as soon as Pete Stratton, the intended receiver...
...jocks were interested in politics, which I think is true. As does everyone else, they asked if there had been any action here. "A little." And then they said they figured that out in Worcester they were about a year behind those of us in Cambridge in activism. Holy Cross is getting excited about the Moratorium...
Quincy athletic secretary Doug Bromley says his teams are confident of winning both the touch football and cross country titles. The House has a strong nucleus returning from last year's championship touch football team and has 17 junior runners who led the team to a second-place finish in last year's cross country meet...