Word: grid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's football game will begin at 2 p.m., but the rest of the season's grid contests will begin at 1:30, following the switch to standard time tomorrow morning...
Died. William Martin ("Willie") Heston, 85, oldtime grid star at the University of Michigan, a halfback who scored 92 touchdowns from 1901 to 1904, led the unbeaten Wolverines to 42 victories, and in the days when Harvard and Yale ruled the roost, became the first non-Ivy Leaguer to make All-America; of kidney disease; in Traverse City, Mich...
...same determination." Thus his high school coach predicts college stardom for Charles Cobb, 17, a protean redhead and grandson of baseball's alltime great, Ty Cobb, who died in 1961. But if there is another "Georgia Peach" ripening, baseball scouts are too late to pick him. Bidding for grid fame instead, young Cobb, a halfback, has signed for a football grant-in-aid at Georgia Tech. Would Grandpa approve? Sure enough, says Charlie, recalling a long-ago story of the day Ty paid a visit to the eleven at Vanderbilt U.: "He put on the pads and made...
...years. While the Bulldogs were compiling impressive records, no one, as Olivar pointed out Monday, seriously questioned his winter-time insurance work. But with the collapse of Yale supremacy following the unbeaten season in 1960, there have been charges that Olivar's part-time dedication to New Haven's grid fortunes has materially contributed to the lack-luster quality of Eli teams. The last two losses to Harvard caused considerable pressure to be put on Oliver to devote all his time to football...
...Green Bay Packers' player payroll with a mere $25,000, while baseball's 162-game season enables the San Francisco Giants to pay Willie Mays $90,000 a year. If the cost of a National Football League franchise is $550,000 today, the growth of the pro grid is decades behind major league baseball, which recorded a $2,800,000 sale of the New York Yankees...