Word: fenton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale production created a stir in drama circles up and down the Ivy League, drew in droves of New Haven academics and New York critics, and was shipped off to Brussels by the State Department to represent the American theatre at the World's Fair. Charles A. Fenton, Assistant Professor of English at Yale, hailed the New Haven production in the pages of the Nation as a "moving and exciting play" notable for its "superb craftsmanship." "J.B., it's a pleasure to report, is good theatre and a fine display of a writer of genuine intellectual substance who has nevertheless...
Ballet for Balance. Arnold Fenton has long practiced what he preaches; as a four-year-old, he booted drop kicks over his mother's clothesline in Metuchen, N.J. By the time he hit the University of Pennsylvania in 1922, he could drill a drop kick through the uprights from 45 yds. out. But as a Penn sophomore, Fenton suffered a concussion in an early scrimmage. He never played again. "When I got clobbered like that," he explains, "I turned to kicking as compensation...
Ordained in 1927, Fenton continued to develop his kicking techniques. In 1934 he started to pass on his knowledge to boys of his parish in Ansonia, Conn, and later in Mamaroneck, N.Y. As his fame spread, he was taken on as kicking consultant by colleges from Harvard to North Carolina. His most famous pupil: North Carolina's All-American Charlie Justice, one of the game's finest quick-kickers...
Along with "ChooChoo" Justice, some 350 other college punters have w'orked for hours at special exercises (including one similar to the ballet dancer's tour en I'air) to achieve Fenton's No. 1 fundamental: balance. "If a punter is balanced, he'll be accurate," says Father Fenton. Fenton strives for the accurate spiral that rolls for extra yardage, schools his punters to aim for coffin corner from as far out as 55 yds. A Fenton-trained kicker gauges the wind like an old salt, will boot low against it, high with...
Last week Arnold Fenton went to Palmer Stadium to watch Princeton drub Dartmouth for the Ivy League championship (see above) and to keep a teacher's eye on Prize Pupil Bill Gundy. Dartmouth's punter, who worked with him for two long months last summer. Fenton had drilled the erratic Gundy on his coordination, changed him into one of the best punters in the East this fall. In the debacle. Gundy still managed to out-punt Princeton by seven yards a try. "When one of my boys like Bill gets off a good one." chuckled Father Fenton...