Word: dayton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three minutes into the second period, Yale goalie Mark Dayton blocked hard shots by Tom Micheletti and Waldinger, then tucked Waldinger's weak follow-up from the side into the goal...
Harvard's last two goals were an unassisted 30-footer by Don Grimble at 17:30 and a breakaway by Jack Garrity at 18:36. Garrity came on behind the Yale defense on a Harvard line change, took a pass from Barry Johnson, and slid the puck between Dayton's legs. But for Ritchie's later effort, it would have been a perfect ending to the rout...
Bursting with Ballyhoo. Scopes, 66, still considers himself a freethinker, but he admits that he was chosen to test Tennessee's anachronistic antievolution law because he was the only available high school teacher left in the dusty little mining town of Dayton (pop. 1,800) that summer when local Chamber of Commerce types decided to work up a little publicity for themselves. Called away from a tennis game one hot afternoon, Scopes duly reported to "Doc" Robinson's drugstore, where a bunch of ambitious boosters asked him if he had ever taught evolution. "To tell the truth," says...
...Soon Dayton was bursting with ballyhoo. Local stores sold bales of cotton apes and bundles of buttons proclaiming "Your Old Man's a Monkey." Robinson's drugstore featured a "Monkey Fizz." The town's only hostelry, the Hotel Aqua, raised its rates to $8 a 'day, and soapboxes sprouted on every corner. Chicago's radio station WGN set up the first nationwide radio hookup to cover the trial in Dayton's bell-towered, red brick courthouse. Bald-pated William Jennings Bryan, munching radishes by the sackful because he was on a diet, starred...
Inevitably, as Darrow had predicted all along, Scopes was convicted and fined $100. Just as inevitably, the conviction was reversed in a higher court (though Tennessee's antievolution law is still on the books). Dayton reverted to quietude; Darrow went on to further legal dramatics; Scopes himself became an oil-company geologist, retired in 1964 and finally found time to complete his engaging memoir with the help of freelance Journalist James Presley...