Word: grid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know his market: Who would buy second homes, and what kind? Equally clear was the rise of environmentalism, so Hanslin walked the land with planners and ecologists, analyzing soil, water, slopes and wind patterns. Then the roads and utility lines went in, following not a predetermined grid of homesites but the natural terrain. "You spend more time on the drawing board and a helluva lot more in the field," he says, "but you end up doing the least amount of developing-and spend the least amount of money disturbing things and putting them back...
Perhaps the best known player making the grid team is halfback Dick Jauron of Yale. Jauron, the first Eli to crack the 1000-yard barrier, gained 1055 in the Elis' nine-game season. He won the Harry Agganis Award as the top football player in New England...
...Indiana, Doyle attended the powerhouse of elementary school football in the area--St. Joseph's of Mishawaka. Catholic elementary schools in the area were never allowed to tangle with public schools of the same grade level. The outcome would predictably turn the stomach of even the most blood thirsty grid fiend...
Snavely's hometown is Pittsburgh, where he attended Thomas Jefferson High School and starred in football as well as being president of his senior class. He admits that his happiest moments were then, when he led his team to the Pennsylvania state grid championship...
Steve says that his Harvard experience "hasn't been all that great" mainly due to major setbacks in his athletic career. In freshmen football, Snavely never broke into the regular line-up, and as a sophomore he abandoned his grid career completely because he didn't want to play under John Yovicson's coaching staff...