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...Crimson (now 1-1) did it with good, old-fashioned, take-it-to-'em football. The offense ground out 210 yards on 54 carries out of a rarely seen power I formation, while the defense--playing a variety of stacked line sets--shut down the vaunted UMass running attack. The Minutemen, who had scored 61 points in their first two contests, managed nary a one against Harvard Saturday...
Good for Brand, O'Connell and Orlick and the new no-win, noncompetitive games [Sept. 11]. Acceptance of them will be slow in a nation geared to tot-'em-up victories and defeats. Surely, the human race can see the merit inherent in striving to become better doctors and teachers, parents and human beings, and will try to improve in the important ways without the empty rewards of raised arms and Scoreboard lights...
...could sure use ol' Bernie pumpin' 'em now," Boomer argued...
...size is much of a problem. "I played in an all-star game in California where all the linemen were around 6-4 and it didn't bother me. I just have to go back a little further. If I know where my receivers are, I'll hit 'em," he said...
...Exorcist. William Friedkin's film of William Peter Blatty's reasonably entertaining novel is cinematic vomit--in a word, a gross-out. Or maybe two words. Friedkin, whose hit-'em-over the head style should confine him to urban crime thrillers, shoves his disgusting images into our faces in a manner reminiscent of Linda Blair shoving a crucifix into her crotch. Crunch, crunch. Blatty's novel needed: a) someone less pretentious than Blatty to write the screenplay, and b) a director with more of a sense of lyricism and wit, a modern James Whale, or a Hitchcock, or even...