Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Young Jim Bouton, who has admitted losing sleep over today's assignment, will ch for the defending champions against the Dodgers' Don Drysdale. Both men righthanded throwers, and both are unbeatable when their fast ball is alive...
There are countless football fans who still insist that Jim Thorpe, or maybe Bronco Nagurski, was the best running back who ever lived. But in the Cotton Bowl last week, there was not a man on the Dallas Cowboys' defensive unit who was not convinced that the best back in history was crouching just across the line of scrimmage with No. 32 on his back...
Jimmy was bothered all last season by a severely sprained wrist, and lost the rushing title to Green Bay's Jim Taylor. But now the wrist is fine, and Jimmy, football's highest-paid star at $45,000, is running as if he needs a raise...
Earlier, the Providence freshmen handed the Crimson a 36-16 cross-country defeat. Friar runners took first, second, third, fifth, and sixth, with only Jim Smith placing for the Yardlings. Niel Houston took seventh place, and David Rice placed eighth for the Crimson...
Although they made some minor mistakes, sophomores Wally Grant and Dave Poe gave notice they will soon be important members of the Crimson backfield. Grant exhibited a fleet foot if not always a steady hand, and Poe showed promising intuition. Jim Gahan's punting was another source of encouragement...