Word: knees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarterbacks. On Texas' seventh play, the starting quarterback was scissored by two Sooner defenders and carted off the field with an ankle injury that will keep him out for the season. The second-string signal caller lasted longer-nine plays-before he too went down with a torn knee. From the farthest reaches of the Texas bench came Randy McEachern, a senior quarterback who had sat out last season, his knee in a cast, as a spotter for U.T. radio announcers. When he entered the game, according to campus wags, he had to introduce himself to other players...
...been nothing but happy endings ever since for McEachern and the Longhorns. Though Randy himself had to miss the Texas Christian game with a sprained knee (fourth-string Quarterback Sam Ansley came in to lead the team to a 44-14 win), Texas last week remained atop the college polls with the only undefeated record among the football powers. The No. 1 ranking has enabled Coach Fred Akers to emerge early from the long shadow of his legendary predecessor, Darrell Royal. It has also vindicated members of the university athletic commission who disregarded a Royal choice and picked Akers instead...
...start to get bitter, and hope that Joe Namath hurts his knee again...
Instead of a win-loss box score, however, the 1977 Crimson cross-country story should read like an injury chart, tallying Stein Rafto's never-ceasing knee troubles, and pointing out that Thad McNulty lost his hamstring, Noel Scid-more came down with pneumonia and Mark Meyer sprained his ankle...
...travails of the cross country team are not really something I am that familiar with. I am somewhat familiar, however, with the knee problems of starr runner Peter Fitzsimmons. One can only hope that Fitzsimmons and the rest of Coach McCurdy's charges will open the spring season in full strength. They will have to overcome, however, the loss of Boston Marathoner Brian Dunn...