Word: doak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bobby was only six years old when his father died and he was sent to Fort Worth to live with an aunt and uncle. By the time he was ready for junior high, his adopted parents moved to Dallas, where he teamed up with a boy named Doak Walker on the football field of Highland Park High School...
Bobby began his career as a guard, but before long he was calling signals from the tailback slot in Highland Park's single wing. Day after day, when the rest of the squad had finished practice, the two boys would work at place-kicking-Bobby holding, Doak booting-until it was too dark to see the goal posts. After the football season, Bobby played basketball; one spring he pitched the local American Legion baseball team to the state championship. By the time he entered the University of Texas in 1944, he was good enough for a baseball scholarship...
...fired his long, string-straight passes. Better than half the time, the ball and a big Lion end got to the same place at precisely the same time. When Baltimore defensemen dropped back in desperation, Layne handed off to his jolting halfback "Hunchy" Hoernschemeyer or rifled short shots to Doak Walker, his slippery high-school ex-teammate from Dallas. Of 28 Layne passes, 18 connected for 246 yds. At half time, the Lions led, 10-3. By the time the chilly autumn evening was over, the Lions were on the long end of a 27-3 score...
...Hunt, the Journal-Bulletin said, put up 95% of the money to start Facts Forum. Among the members of its national board: Sears, Roebuck Chairman Robert E. Wood, Cinemactor John Wayne, Texas Governor Allan Shivers, General Albert C. Wedemyer, All-America Football Player Doak Walker...
...might be kicked by Cleveland's famed Tackle Lou ("The Toe") Groza. But Layne & Co. had other ideas. Detroit's huge (average: 235 Ibs.), hard-charging line forced Graham to fumble soon after the opening kickoff. Layne promptly called on an old Texas high-school football mate, Doak Walker, for the Detroit score. Graham, stopped, could only retaliate with a Groza field goal. At halftime, underdog Detroit...