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...series, the 1951 encounter also stands out as a memorable thriller. Yale came from behind to tie the Crimson 21 to 21, late in the fourth quarter. The varsity's three scores all came in dramatic fashion--a fourth-down finger-tip cacth of a pass by end Paul Crowley, an 84-yard run by halfback John Ederer, and a pass intercep...
...Latin, Congregatio Sanctae Crucis (C.S.C.). *Rockne's famed 1922-24 backfield: Quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, Halfbacks Don Miller and Jim Crowley, Fullback Elmer Layden. *The yellow "Notre Dame brick," made originally from marl in nearby St. Joseph's Lake and now manufactured in New Jersey...
This ad in the Las Vegas Review-Journal tipped off the gamblers, girlies and gapers of the famous Strip that their favorite priest was leaving town. The Rev. Richard Anthony Crowley, 51, had been assigned by his bishop to a parish in Springfield, Ill., where a Roman Catholic priest might look a bit out of place in a $6,850, 105-m.p.h. white sports car with green leather upholstery. Last week the Vegas crowd threw Father Crowley a farewell party in the town's saucer-shaped Convention Center...
...Father Crowley won his popularity by ministering to show people and by strenuous relief work for the migrant farm workers who abound around Las Vegas. But what won him fame is the Mass that for the past three years he has been holding at 4:30 a.m. for around 500 show people, croupiers and early-bird tourists of the 24-hour town. Crowley held it each Sunday in the Stardust Hotel, which features the "Lido de Paris 1961 Revue," with 13 bare-breasted girls. Such a broadminded willingness to bring religion to The Strip won him much gratitude: Wilbur Clark...
...does any man of God, though his intentions are good and his boons indisputable, have to seek sinners quite so flamboyantly? Nevada's Catholic Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno gave his answer when he advised Catholics to boycott places of such "filthy and immoral" entertainment. Crowley took it in stride. Comparing last week's sendoff "bash" with the modest welcoming reception planned for his successor, he ruefully noted: "It is evidently much better to be leaving Las Vegas than to be coming here...