Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search up and down Soldiers Field and find few athletes as smooth or gifted as George Hughes, Gene Purdy or Jack Hughes. You can attend scores of practices, and you will never find the devotion that Coach Billy Cleary seems to muster yearly. You can walk away from a Yale football game, revelling in the size of the crowd and All That Tradition, and know full well it's nothing like The Beanpot...
...Crimson look especially strong in the forward department, where freshmen David Burke, Jack Burke, Mike Watson and Scott Powers have played well enough to push several lettermen for spots on the first four lines...
DIED. Gene Tunney, 81, former world heavyweight boxing champion who twice defeated Jack Dempsey before retiring undefeated in 1928; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn, (see SPORT...
...high school dropout at 16, he became a self-taught Shakespearean scholar. He was also an intelligent fighter, a master of the sweet science who won the title from Jack Dempsey on a decision in 1926. In their second fight, Tunney was ahead on points when Dempsey decked him, then lost his chance to regain the title when he was slow to go to a neutral corner. Given an extra four seconds to clear his head?the famous Gene Tunney in his prime (1926) Aloof from the Damon Runyon types. "long count"?Tunney got up and outboxed Dempsey...
...came to be friends with Dempsey. The old foes were thought of together, two men joined by their past. When Tunney's death was reported, Dempsey's wife Deanna said of her ailing husband, "He is taking it very badly. You must remember Gene was a big part of Jack's life for 60 years...