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Wally Ris, the only man to captain Iowa's team two years running, was ambitious to be a varsity football player rather than a swimmer, still regrets that he didn't make the gridiron grade. He didn't take up swimming until he hurt a knee playing high-school football. The knee still bothers him. His favorite story is how it clicked back into place before his big Olympic race, while he was marching to the flagpole for some welcoming ceremonies...
Along with the normal heritage of broken noses, trick elbows and collapsible knees, old football players often take with them into later life the habit of explaining contemporary events in terms of gridiron metaphor. Last week Canada's Secretary for External Affairs, Lester Bowles Pearson, onetime University of Toronto football coach, said at an Ottawa banquet...
...thus] never reach the peak of physical condition. They're good passers, better catchers, and good kickers, but they lack stamina." Then he allowed himself a Senecan lament on mid-Century males in general: "It is my opinion that the youth of today, on or off the gridiron, is not trained for total responsibility as the youth of my earlier years...
...good backfield man ("most valuable" player in the National pro league in 1928), slim Jimmy put on a mountain of weight as a coach, and with it a fat reputation as a football man who could talk without lacing his brows into a gridiron scowl. Once when he was Cardinal coach, he limped to his feet at a sport luncheon explaining that he was bothered by 1) an old knee injury, 2) a shot of morphine to quiet the knee, 3) a double Daiquiri to quiet the morphine. His stories usually pictured his own rampaging footballers (among them Marshall Goldberg...
Even before the kickoff in the National Football League championship this week, a driving storm had blanketed Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Gridiron markings were blotted out under four inches of snow. But television, radio and newsreel companies had paid $33,000 for rights to the game, and a postponement would have been costly. Commissioner Bert Bell ruled that first downs would be decided by referee's instinct instead of tape measure, and assigned extra judges to call out-of-bounds plays...