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...most enraging scenes in Basic Training seem, at first, incidental to the film's major themes. At their center is a scrawny private named Hickman. He's average height, has a thin, sucked-in face with no forehead to speak of; he is pasted with puzzlement, and he walks as if he doubts he can make...
When we first meet Private Hickman, his sergeant has pulled him out of formation. While his battalion marches behind him, Hickman is drilled separately. And his separateness is embarassing. He pivots too slowly or too fast, he swings his arms haphazardly, he can hardly keep step with the sergeant's call. When he rejoins his platoon, the training sergeant bears down hard: "You're out of step Hickman. You're out of step Hickman. You're out of step Hickman." And Hickman just keeps stumbling along, laughing when he turns in the wrong direction, or when he jars the dogface...
Sophomore Dewey Hickman went in Johnson's place since he was second behind Yale's Rich, Mac Donald in the high hurdles that day. Hickman had pulled a leg muscle on the Southern trip, so the Yale meet was the only one he competed in all season, finishing in 15.0 on the slow track...
...grandstand after the Heps meet), the seemingly simple top-two formula was used. What the formula resulted in was the selection of 21 Men of Harvard for the 31-man squad. It also meant that outgoing Captain Walter Johnson, who ran third in the high hurdles behind teammate Dewey Hickman, will stay behind, and New Captain Bud Wilson, who ran second in the 220, won't be able to go because he was 2 seconds behind freshman Austin O'Connor, who will get the trip...
...Hurdles: Dewey Hickman...