Word: gridironers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Plunkett's past performance on the gridiron has been more conservative than flashy, it obviously speaks for itself. The honors and accolades have been heaped on him. During his career at Stanford, where he majored in political science, he shattered NCAA records, beat Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, made every All-American team, and won the Maxwell Award as well as the highly-touted Heisman Trophy...
...Kent Waldrep, however, the game won't go on. Last Saturday wasn't just another loss, something he could shake off by mid-week. It's just sad, pure and simple, that a young man has been so severely incapacitated while trying to carve out his own bit of gridiron glory...
Perhaps no sport enjoys the popularity bannister-sliding does at this time in this country. More and more crosstown rivals in more and more small towns are leaving the gridiron as the arena for the annual conflict--and taking to the bannisters of the vicinity. In small parishes on the Mississippi and in teeming boroughs on the East cost, patriotic youths have erected grand and alabaster bannisters in tribute to the state. And in upstate New York, I am told, they are razing America's traditional sports temple to make way for a Hall of Fame for the great splinter...
McInally obviously learned his lesson from a depressing sophomore year. Not only did he become what coach Joe Restic describes as a "real team member who plays in an unselfish manner," but he proved himself to be one of the finest Harvard football players ever to grace the gridiron. And his record proves...
This is not Michigan, where 60,000 frantic football fans come to watch their gridiron heroes. Nor is it the University of Maryland, whose student body rocks the SRO house as it watches Lefty Driesell and his hardcourt heroes work their magic on the hated opposition. And it is hardly a St. Lawrence, where students line up hours before a hockey game in order to get in, and literally raise the roof once inside...