Word: devaney
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...fever any more. Especially if you live in Nebraska, where goldenrod is the state flower. There aren't many maples in Nebraska, and there wasn't much big-time football - give or take a season or so - until a paunchy, puffy-eyed Irish man named Bob Devaney took over as head coach at the University of Nebraska...
...Devaney, as every Nebraskan knows, rhymes with uncanny. Bob walked out on a new five-year contract at Wyoming to take the Nebraska job, announced on his arrival in Lincoln: "I don't expect to win enough games to be put on N.C.A.A. probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation." Devaney proceeded to win 28 out of his first 33-and improve from there. Until last week the closest the Cornhuskers had come to losing this fall was a 16-14 victory over No. 8-ranked Missouri. They had walloped Texas Christian...
...Organ. If N.C.A.A. gumshoes are dogging Devaney's footsteps, he is leading them a merry chase. He is the most peripatetic recruiter in Nebraska's history. No fewer than 68 of the 109 athletes who tried out for the team last spring were non-Nebras-kans. The Huskers do have Nebraskan Bob Churchich playing quarterback, but he has to alternate with Chicago's Fred Duda. Another Chicagoan, 240-lb. Tackle Walt Barnes, is the bulwark of a defense that so far has limited its opponents to 195 yds. per game. Cleveland's Frank Solich...
Then there is Right End Tony Jeter. Jeter hails from Weirton, W. Va., and he was set to go to Arizona State before Devaney dropped by-just as Tony's mother was sitting down to the family organ. Devaney lifted his Irish tenor in song, and Arizona never had a chance "After that," sighs Tony, "there wa; never a doubt in my mamma's mine about where I was going to college. ] was going to play for that nice Mr Devaney...
Although James Devaney, Assistant Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, who sent the results to Gallen, would not disclose the results of the study, he did say that the Library's present ventilation system met all industry standards...