Word: fake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author of that authentic fake, the "autobiography" of Howard Hughes, prolific Writer Clifford Irving can be relied upon for verisimilitude. Here Irving teams with entertaining Novelist Herbert Burkholz (Mulligan's Seed) to write a suavely persuasive, anti-Establishment thriller with the bitter aftertaste of Campari and vodka...
...Clasby his Paul Crowley with a scoring connection that closed the gap to 14-7. From there, the Crimson pulled off the unexpected. Two players who had gained only late-season varsity recognition did the damage, John Ederer taking a fake handoff for an 83-yd. scoring romp, and Fred Drill running 20 yards with an interception that put Harvard ahead...
...glamor boy of the Crimson eleven in the mid-1930s was fullback Vernon Struck, who back then took the snap from center. Struck's sleight-of-hand with the pigskin earned him the sonorous sobriquet of "The Magnificent Faker." "Struck would fake you right out of the stadium," Cavileer recalls. "One day I ran into Dick Bennick, who was a manager back in 1930 and he said: 'I sit with my friends back in the end zone and I don't have any problems seeing the ball but I never could follow the plays when old Struck was around...
When Newton emerged from prison in 1970, he found the Panthers divided into rival factions. One reason was that the FBI had begun a campaign of dirty tricks-counterfeit Panther documents, fake denunciations of various Panthers as police informants-in an effort to disrupt what the agency's Washington intelligence chief called "the most violence prone of all the extremist groups...
Wrong. The fact that Harvard did not convert on the fake field goal did not diminish its ability as a football team. The reality is that such a statement shows what prevents Harvard from being a better football team, and why darkness still reigns...