Word: crow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City Council outlawed Jim Crow public housing...
...toughest athlete on the Texas A.&M. campus felt terrible. His team had frittered away two football games in a row; instead of finishing the season No. 1 in the country, the Aggies had fallen to tenth, and third in their own Southwest Conference. And Halfback John David Crow figured that it was all his fault. "When we got beat," said Crow, "I felt like I'd let everybody down...
...John Crow was too modest. At week's end he was on every All-America team worthy of the name (see box), and in an overwhelming vote by sportswriters, he won the Heisman Trophy as outstanding college football player of 1957. Chicago's professional Cardinals, entitled to first-draft choice because they have the worst record in the league, brightened their 1958 prospects by choosing Crow to team up with Rice's Quarterback King Hill* in the rejuvenation of the Cardinals' backfield...
Purpose & Power. Crow's neatly proportioned (6 ft. 2 in., 214 lbs.) frame surrounds awesome talent. His choppy, hustling stride sheds tacklers; he is a vicious blocker and a shrewd, swift safety man. On offense or defense, his specialty is hitting opponents with skill, purpose and power. Last year, when Tackle Bobby Lockett teamed up with End John Tracey to bring down Texas Christian's great Halfback Jim Swink, Crow came up to "secure" the tackle, as the football euphemism goes. He knocked both Swink and Tracey goggle-eyed, and Tackle Lockett was belted right...
...Crow received nearly double the votes of the runner-up, Alex Karras of Iowa...