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...September 1977. Quarterback Tim Davenport collapses under a pile of Columbia Lions in the Baker Field endzone, on a muggy, hot day in Devil's Elbow. Although Davenport finishes the game, doctors diagnose a broken neck vertebra two days later, putting the quarterback out for the rest of the season...
While serving a one-year sentence for larceny in the minimum-security institution at Davenport, Iowa, James Shelton, 26, worked during the day at a downtown shoe store and spent each night in his unlocked room. One day in November, 1977, he left for work and vanished...
...Davenport police thereupon obtained an arrest warrant to make a date with the lovable bachelor. Last week, Shelton was returned to the institution he had fled...
...defensive." That was on the eve of his bid for a second term as U.S. Senator. The following day the Iowa Democrat, one of the Senate's leading liberals, learned how right he was. He became a casualty of the conservative trend, losing to Republican Roger Jepsen, 49, a Davenport businessman...
...seven including two non-league encounters) brought Princeton to Cambridge, but Kubacki, injured the week before in Philadelphia, had to watch from the sidelines. What he saw was as pleasing as a final exam. The Tigers clawed their way to a 24-0 lead, and even an incredible Tim Davenport-inspired comeback which came within a bobbled snap from center of immortality left the final margin...