Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fall, Crimson Coach Lloyd Jordan had three weeks in which to polish up and set into motion a smooth-running squad. But three weeks is hardly enough time for a coach to produce the versatile player now required. Spring practice in such a case becomes a necessity--not because a team must be drilled and re-drilled until it reaches near-professional calibre, but because the players on that team must learn again those practices which allow him to play for thirty or forty minutes without loss of limb...
...better under pressure than most," says Golfer Lloyd Mangrum, "because I'm a ham at heart. I'm also a gambler at heart, and I'll take a chance rather than play it safe. It's always better to be a winner." Mangrum was talking about golf's hottest current winning streak: five straight tournaments (in Australia and the U.S.) and close to $11,000 in prize money since November...
...Break. Like most topflight golfers, Texas-born Lloyd Mangrum started as a caddy. And like most, he found that cracking the pro circuit was a discouraging business. For three straight years Mangrum missed meals, slept in fleabag hotels, and was grateful when he was lucky enough to pick up $50 in a match. In 1940 he got his first break: an invitation to play in Bobby Jones' Masters Tournament. Mangrum, then 25, blazed an opening-round 64, the best recorded up to that time in major-tournament play, and still a Masters record...
...From D-day at Omaha Beach, through France, Germany and Czechoslovakia, he picked up three Purple Hearts and four battle stars as a reconnaissance sergeant in Patton's Third Army. He also got a badly crushed shoulder and a broken arm from a jeep accident. But Lloyd Mangrum, durable and determined, returned to the tough tournament grind convinced that "golf is a cinch compared to what I went through in the war." His first year back, playing for the U.S. Open title, golf's most coveted prize, Mangrum coolly sank a 75-ft. putt in the final round...
...though more specialized, rarely left their particular jobs. When the score mounted to say, 41 to 14 in the last quarter, Mr. Caldwell removed some of his starters. It is entirely conceivable that if Harvard manages to lead some team by twenty-seven points in the last five minutes, Lloyd Jordan may take Dick Clasby out, thus proving both the versatility of the new rule, and the fallacy of Caldwell's argument...