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...since the war at the institution to participate in athletics. One of them ... is now serving a term of one to 20 years for armed robbery." But, in spite of the scandal, in the two months before sentence was actually passed, McCue was out there on the Western Illinois gridiron, complete with scholarship and the personal approval of President...
Died. Charles W. (Charlie) Caldwell Jr., 56, Princeton University's canny head football coach since 1945; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. A onetime (class of '25) Tiger gridiron great (fullback on the 1922 "Team of Destiny"), Caldwell stubbornly clung to his modern version of the old-fashioned single-wing formation, brought Old Nassau untied and undefeated elevens in 1950 and 1951, won six Big Three (Harvard-Princeton-Yale) championships in six years (1947-52), was voted 1950's ''coach of the year...
...exert an influence on the office of the future, perhaps even on the city of the future." says Connecticut General's President Frazar Wilde. And not without reason. For as industry shifts to the countryside, it can build with a streamlined efficiency almost impossible in the interlocking gridiron of big-city interests. Connecticut General, designed by the Manhattan office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is a prime example of the best in large-scale planning, functional building and site development...
Among other inconsistencies ,of course, was the football team which managed to win only two of eight starts, but than no one seemed overly-interested in the gridiron. The Faculty Committee on Athletics was the notable exception, and Mr. Jordan was retired on the basis of "poor teaching," which many people took to mean an inability to win football games...
FEBRUARY. Councillor Vellucci will publish his first volume of poetry, entitled, I,I,I, and Humility. Dean Bundy will deny that he wants to become football coach in an attempt to "bring government to the gridiron." Seven members of the Government and Economics Departments will suffer nervous collapses when the Americans for Democratic Action disbands...