Word: lineman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five months ago, Ted Wheeler quit as a lineman for the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League, sold his home and furniture business in Vancouver, and returned to the U.S. to join the Detroit Wheels of the new World Football League. "Wheeler of the Wheels," club officials beamed. "With a name like that you're just what we need." The admiration was mutual. Wheeler, 29, thought that the Wheels offered the chance he wanted to end his career playing in his home town. It did not work out that way. Midway through the season the Wheels went bankrupt...
...season Harvard receiving records last year, and tied career marks. He was second in the nation with 6.2 catches per game and led the Ivy League with 43 receptions. With 13 receptions against Brown, he set a Harvard record, tied the Ivy standard and won the AP National Lineman of the Week award...
...also the first offensive lineman selected as captain since center John O'Brien...
...Brown lineman John Drew headed in a corner kick shot for Brown's second tally. "It was an unstoppable shot because Drew came running in on Kidder to make the head," assistant coach Seamus Malin said yesterday...
Injuries have depleted Harvard's interior lines, and the Crimson J.V.s may have only one legitimate defensive lineman available for duty at game time. They should have their hands full trying to stop a Tiger attack which features quarterback John Murray and split end John Gropp...