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...continues to be a lot of hard work out on the practice field, sweltering through muggy Cambridge afternoons in the early season and performing exercises in self-affliction as the season drags into frigid November. Football is football, and there are no revolutionary changes in store for the gridiron enthusiast who intends to follow up at Harvard his no-doubt fantastic high school career...
Local loyalties were an important factor, and the most popular nonpolitical Man of the Year was Bob Devaney, coach of the University of Nebraska's championship football team. "He taught his team to play football the right way," explained one second-grade gridiron fan. Another contender not in public office was John Wayne ("He is one of the few actors who has not appeared on the screen in his birthday suit. As a minor I protest against all these R and X movies"). There was even evidence of Women's Lib on the grammar school level. A fifth...
...primarily for personal advancement. First I wanted to equip my mind so that one day I might become an anthropological authority. I thought a Harvard degree would enhance my credibility in this pursuit. Now I feel it might have the opposite effect. Additionally, I came to continue my gridiron "super nigger" exploits...
Athletically, I had only unfortunate experiences at Harvard. One was meeting Coach John Yovicsin and his football staff, who successfully foiled any aspirations I had for gridiron achievement. Yovicsin and his staff could best be described as typically racist, reactionary conservatives--the kind of Americans who elected Richard Nixon in 1968. The following selected passages might provide more insight into "Yovy" and his relationship to me during the 1970 football season: Dartmouth Program Oct. 24, 1970 "It didn't seem inappropriate at his first press conference at a Boston hotel. Down at the end of a table was a long...
...year-old national journalism society, invited women to join, and so far about 3,000 have signed on. Fourteen months later the National Press Club in Washington, after much external protest and internal agonizing, admitted women for the first time since the club was founded in 1908. But the Gridiron Club, which fancies itself the most distinguished assemblage of journalists in the nation, has wavered only ever so slightly. It has agreed to invite 13 women guests to its annual dinner, while the membership of the 87-year-old group will remain all male-at least for the time being...