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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Eli standouts included Herb Hallas, who scored three touchdowns; Gene Coker, whose thrusts up the middle kept the Harvard defense loose, and Cavallon, whose sure receiving, behind Harvard defenders, accounted for two touchdowns and 88 yards...
...When he was not stopping punches with his face, former Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer was forced to use every weapon he had as he tried to fight his way past Las Vegas' Neal Rivers for another crack at the title. For ten rounds he threw fists, forehead and shoulders with fierce abandon, and for ten rounds he caught as much as he threw. The verdict: a split decision for Fullmer. The surgical count: 16 stitches for Fullmer, only six for Rivers...
...Gene Coker, a standout performer against Princeton, will start at fullback, and Winterbauer will be in his usual quarterback slot. The starting halfbacks will be Dick Winkler and Herb Hallas, who caught a 53-yard pass from Winterbauer in Saturday's game, only to have it called back on a penalty...
...Eugene Gifford Grace, life means competition. And in any kind of competition-from the baseball diamond to the steel mill-he likes to lead the team. For 41 of his 81 years. Gene Grace not only captained giant Bethlehem Steel Corp., but was often the industry's most articulate spokesman in its bouts with Big Labor and Government. Last week, seven months after suffering a stroke, Chairman Grace stepped down as chief executive of the company that he had molded into the nation's second-biggest producer of steel, and its biggest shipbuilder...
...Hour. Wiry, thin-lipped Gene Grace first showed his competitive drive while working for pennies in his father's Goshen, N.J. general store. He saved enough to attend Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where he was class valedictorian ('99) and captained the baseball team for two years. Just before graduating as an electrical engineer, he had two job offers-one from the Boston Braves, the other from small Beth Steel. Grace calculated that a career as shortstop would end at 35 at best; so he went to Beth as a 15?-an-hour electric-crane operator, moved from...