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...said there was a part of Louis in him that he disliked, because "all the time I was growing up, I hated who I was. I knew there was someone that was funny inside of me and meanwhile I was forced to go around being a jock...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Actor Reynolds Discusses Hollywood Ups and Downs | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...player annual limit on new recruits and a ceiling of 95 football scholarships overall, Paterno rarely recruited more than 25 players a year. By comparison, Oklahoma bestowed 40 to 50 scholarships a year before the new limits were imposed. Players point proudly to the absence of a jock aristocracy on the 27,000-student Penn State campus. There is no lush special housing for players; they live in regular dormitories, and curfews are virtually unknown. No player is allowed to lighten his academic load during the season, and some 94% of Penn State's footballers graduate on schedule after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1 and Still Climbing | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Jumping is status blind. The sport includes bankers and physicians, lawyers, grocery clerks, house painters, schoolteachers, coal miners and college students. Jock Covey, Henry Kissinger's ex-aide and now chief of the State Department's Israel desk, has 725 jumps. Wolfgang Halbig, 31, a University of Dusseldorf urologist, with 1,200 jumps, is one of 15 Germans here. "When you freefall, it doesn't matter whether you clean the road or you're a doctor," he says. "You just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Catch a Falling Snowflake | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Clark is smaller, a little thick through the middle, perhaps, but not, at first glance, a football jock. Listed as 6-1, 220, in the press guide's inflated figures, Clark has a broad, square-jawed face and curly hair...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Harvard's Line Is All Right | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

...should be noted that both Clark and Kross fit the traditional jock stereotype about as well as a pair of size-32 shorts fits Vasily Alexeyev...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Harvard's Line Is All Right | 10/27/1978 | See Source »

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