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...climbed trees, rain spouts, a snake charmer's rope, a church facade. (Take the stairs? What's the fun in that?) And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft. away. Doug was a whiz with a rapier, a whip, a bola. He could somersault off a horse, trampoline from one speeding car to another. He was a fellow you literally could not keep down--a movie vision of young America on the ascendance in the decade after World...
...Thief of Bagdad), yet he was always an American abroad, showing the Old World how to win the fair maiden, cure each injustice. And he'd do it with a laugh--at the fix he was in, at the bulky chore of filmmaking, at the sheer joy of being Doug...
Fairbanks was 32 and a Broadway light-comedy star when, in 1915, he was signed by the Triangle film company. Its most noted director, D.W. Griffith, was not impressed: "He's got a face like a cantaloupe, and he can't act." Both slurs were accurate. Doug's full-moon face and double chin made him a long shot for movie swoondom; and in closeup his stage-bred gestures looked like cheerleader antics. All he had was it--the gorgeous muscularity and infectious brio that made folks want to pay to see more. His exuberance turned...
Virginia is led by the famous Cavalier attack trio of senior Tim Whiteley, junior Michael Watson, and junior Doug Knight, and backed by a savage defense that lets very few people into its home...
Virginia's go-to players were in top form. With superstar Doug Knight (5 goals) flying across the crease and his wingman Tim Whiteley (2 goals, 6 assists) continually getting him the ball, the Cavalier attack was practically unstoppable...