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Like most athletic directors, Scott is a former jock; he was a sprinter at Syracuse. But that is where the similarity ends. While covering the 1968 Olympics for Ramparts, he "tried to explain why blacks were angry and exploited as athletes." He briefly taught a course at the University of California called "Intercollegiate Athletics and Higher Education: A Socio-Psychologcal Evaluation" and founded the Institute for the Study of Sport and Society to "help interpret what's going on in sport and make it what it can and should be." Scott's two books, A thletics for Athletes...
Harvey rejects the image of the coach as a dictatorial jock, blindly ordering his players around. "Especially at Harvard a coach must meet student's needs. We have many different types of people at Harvard, all of whom have individual personalities and a coach must try to suit his style to them...
...pains to make sure the election would be honest, fielding 1,000 federal poll watchers during the balloting and hand-picking those who would do the counting. During the last election, in 1969, there was widespread tampering and intimidation. When it was all over, Boyle's defeated challenger, "Jock" Yablonski, was shot dead along with his wife and daughter...
...roll... you can stomp and you can stroll... at the hop." One last time. Do the do. Spike took Mary Lou around the waist. It was like old times. "Couple number one you're looking fine." But it isn't yesterday....it's today. The Boogie jock is back. Rock around the clock tonight. So fine...so fine...they're so fine...
That may seem to be overdoing it, but U.M.W. elections are not the ordinary kind-especially not since 1969 when Boyle soundly defeated Challenger Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski. After a campaign in which Yablonski was beaten up and often kept from speaking, Boyle's henchmen refused to reveal the location of many voting places, did not announce voting hours, electioneered at the polls and chased away poll watchers sent by the other camp. As a result, Boyle's totals bore only a casual relationship to the number of voters in the districts...