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There is only one documented case of an alligator actually killing a person (last year in Florida). But the creatures have needle-sharp teeth, and the big ones can crunch a leg or arm off a grown man. Though the gator still tends to avoid people, warns Ted Joanen, a biologist with Louisiana's Wild Life and Fisheries Commission, "he domesticates quite easily and loses his fear of people...
Seriously, the South isn't all cheerleaders, good ole boys and Baptist deacons, as you so richly imply. There is a new generation of Southern adults that well know how to discern a gator from a stump. You know, we've seen a good many gators down here. We just stay home when Nixon brings his carpetbags to town...
...club will get plenty of practice when it heads for Florida over spring break. On the first weekend it will compete in the Gainesville "Gator Tournament," which McKinley says is "the biggest rugby event in the south...
...called the Gator Tournament and it's the biggest rugby event in the South," McKinley said. "Teams from Michigan, Brown and Notre Dame will be there along with teams from all over the South...
Though Hayes' gift probably did not violate any N.C.A.A. rules, it was symptomatic of the anything-to-please atmosphere that suffuses such recruiting visits. The most seductive sell may be offered at the University of Florida, where visiting prospects are entertained by the "Gator Getters," a group of coeds organized to escort prospects to games, meals and dances. Rumors abound that high school athletes courted by Florida "can't miss...