Word: drafted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Incomplete returns show that voters in two Massachusetts senate districts approved a proposition Tuesday instructing their senators to urge Congress to grant unconditional amnesty to Vietnam draft resisters and deserters...
...original draft of the Interim Report, included a detailed section concerning these plans, but the section was dropped before publication because administrators feared that adverse reaction to some of the plans might arise, sources said this week
League owners met in Los Angeles last week, and in an effort to stabilize the W.F.L., they announced that a new team would be formed in New York in time for the 1976 season and the reopening of Yankee Stadium. They also held a special draft for Wheel players-16 members of the 37-man squad were picked up-and promised to honor all other contracts signed by now defunct teams. "We feel while we have had our problems, we have not ignored them," says League Founder and Commissioner Gary Davidson. "I feel very positively we have turned the corner...
...seemed to be the perfect site for a new pro team. The N.F.L. Lions are abandoning downtown Tiger Stadium next fall for new quarters in Pontiac, 25 miles from Detroit, and fans were already saying, "Let the Pontiac Pussycats go." The Wheels rolled into town with ambitious plans; they drafted such top college stars as Tennessee State Defensive End Ed ("Too Tall") Jones (the N.F.L.'s first draft choice) and set out to hire John Merritt away from Tennessee State as head coach...
Today Collins, who was bypassed in the draft of Wheel players, spends his days doing chores around his future in-laws' house in Ann Arbor. Soon he will take a job with Vic Tanny. And Ted Wheeler? As he heads to Chicago, he is just glad that his football activities will no longer be confined to watching the B.C. Lions on TV. They are fighting for first place in the Western Conference of the Canadian league...