Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Crow 6 ft. 2 in. 214 Texas...
...bonus choice, given to one team a year in an order determined by lot, came to the Cardinals by fortunate coincidence at a time when their quarterbacks were in desperately short supply. So they picked Hill for their bonus, knowing that they could also draft Crow, an asset for any team, however rich in halfbacks...
Simply snagging Crow for the Aggie team was a triumph for Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. John Crow had been tripping over college scouts ever since he made the first team at Louisiana's Springhill High School; he had offers of scholarships from Notre Dame to Oklahoma. There was so much activity around the Crow home that N.C.A.A. investigators kept snooping for under-the-table payoffs long after Coach Bryant's bird dogs had carried John David...
Mother's Money. But if bagging Crow was a triumph, losing him seems a tragedy. Bear Bryant, for one, is not even going to stay on at College Station, Texas to find out what football might be like without everybody's All-American. Bear is chucking a contract that has seven $15,000 years to run, and he is hotfooting it for his alma mater, Alabama U. The once mighty Alabamans have been having woeful times on the football field. "Say you heard your mother call," explains Bear Bryant solemnly. "If you thought she wanted...
...Coach Bryant tells it, he would have felt the same way even if the Aggies had matched Alabama's price with a $2,500 raise, and even if Aggie alumni had shown some fresh enthusiasm for the kind of frantic Crow-hunting recruitment program that Alabama grads are organizing...