Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sessions were wild and woolly for their day. But the antics at Hickory Hill and Hyannisport now seem like a girls' fieldhockey jamboree compared with the mayhem on the greensward at Gracie Mansion when New York Mayor John Lindsay and his pals take the field. After the latest game, one aide had landed in the hospital with a broken hand and two others were hobbling around with badly swollen shins. And Hizzoner unscathed. In fact, despite striking teachers and recalcitrant policemen he was dressed up for a night out on the town with his wife. "We always play this...
...lead. Then it happened. Early in the third quarter, the Packers' Willie Davis crashed through the Cowboy line, grabbed Meredith's face mask and wrenched him to the ground, breaking his nose. The infraction cost Green Bay a 15-yd. penalty. It cost Dallas the ball game. Obviously in pain, Meredith was only fitfully effective, seemed to have trouble finding his receivers, was twice intercepted. Meanwhile, Green Bay Quarterback Bart Starr completed ten of eleven passes, three of them for touchdowns. Final score: Green Bay 28, Dallas...
Once more pro football had demonstrated that even the best team is rarely better than its quarterback. With Meredith healthy, the Cowboys had galloped to six straight victories and an undisputed lead in the N.F.L. Until the Dallas game, the world champion Packers had managed only a 2-3-1 record-largely because of a freak injury to their own field general. While lobbing passes in a warmup drill before the Los Angeles Rams game three weeks ago, Starr unaccountably pulled the biceps muscle in his throwing arm, watched from the sidelines as the Rams toppled his teammates...
...than their share of companions in pain. Indeed, the outcome of the 1968 pro football season seems to be predicated on the survival quotient of quarterbacks. As of last week, no fewer than 16 signal callers in the two leagues have been sidelined with injuries for one or more games. Many of the injuries, like Starr's, could hardly have been prevented. Pete Beathard of the Houston Oilers (record: 3-5-0) was rushed to the hospital last month for an emergency appendectomy, while winless Philadelphia's Norm Snead, trying to make a tackle after an interception, turned...
...rather than fly, thereby eliminating himself from several tournaments that took place while he was at sea, including the one with the richest first prize of all, the $55,000 Alcan. Singer Jack Landron passed up a free junket to Finland, which he won on TV's Dating Game, because he refused to fly. While designing the capital city of Brasilia, Architect Oscar Niemeyer regularly drove the 575 miles overland from Rio de Janeiro rather than take a1½-hour flight...