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...headed, at least in one sport. He went 4-0 for the rejuvenated baseball squad sophomore year and spent his summer as the number one pitcher in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League. A pro baseball career was in his plans, one that didn't necessarily include another gridiron learning experience...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Here's Looking at Ya, Brownie | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...serious (not that the above was funny), it was no surprise to me that my phone never called me to gridiron glory, but this year's draft passed by a few quite legitimate pro prospects. We all know about Harvard's own Jim Curry; he's had the talent and potential to tear any league wide open, yet no team was willing to give him a chance to prove...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: A Rough Draft | 5/9/1978 | See Source »

...cabinet's contents go much further back into Harvard gridiron lore. Correspondence between Yale's legendary coach Walter Camp and Harvard's 1898 national championship mentor W. Cameron Forbes reveals the tandem's activism in re-writing the rules for the rapidly growing sport...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: From Walter Camp to George Allen | 2/28/1978 | See Source »

...past 18 seasons, the most successful team in football. Dallas devised a computerized scouting system that catalogued the requirements of the sport in fractions of inches and split seconds. The Cowboys have turned up blue-chip players with clockwork regularity, including prospects found in fields foreign to the gridiron. Track stars, basketball players ?not to mention the occasional Heisman Trophy winner?have contributed to the impressive return on Dallas' investments: the play-offs eleven times in the past twelve years, five National Conference titles, one Super Bowl championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Denver and Dallas | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...Garrett, 10, comes by her talent naturally; her father-Carl-is a running back for the Oakland Raiders. Carla pitches for a Santa Fe Little League and plays basketball, but after tossing the football around a few times with her dad, she decided that her true passion was the gridiron. Carla even dreams of being in the Football Hall of Fame someday. "I don't know why," she says, "I just think it's a pretty neat sport." Carla, 5 ft. 1 in. and 139 Ibs., entered a punt, pass and kick competition sponsored by the Ford Motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 19, 1977 | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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