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Unlikely as that may seem. Danny Villanueva claims he didn't encourage Jim to become a football kicker...
...playing soccer at an early age," recalls the elder Villanueva of his son. "I didn't want to push him, but he started to kick on his own. When he chose the crazy spot [of kicker]. I helped him. But I wanted him to make the decision...
...Harvard football team had hungered for a year. The players considered last season's roughing-the-kicker-penalty-induced, no-time-remaining, 23-21 Philadelphia outcome a raw deal. Much too tough to swallow, Saturday, the fast was over; Harvard flossed with Penn at the Stadium, 28-0, dislodging the bitter remains of last year's devastation...
...home one evening after Richard Nixon appointed him director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. When he reached into the refrigerator for a beer, there was a note in doggerel from his wife saying, "He tackled a job that couldn't be done ..." At the bottom was the kicker: "... and couldn't do it." If ever there was a job that seemed to defy success, it was the one Rumsfeld accepted last week from President Reagan: that of special envoy to the Middle East...
Restic announced a formal protest the following Tuesday and suggested that Penn voluntarily renounce the win. Films of the play were less than conclusive about whether John O'Brien got blocked into the kicker, but the films did show that referee Bob Lynch lifted his head to watch the flight of the ball and took three steps before throwing the flag after the play had ended. The Eastern College Athletic Conference review of the play backed up the call while questioning the technique with which it was made...