Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seniors? And why he spent most of his pre-game instructions on strategy, leaving much of the emotional and psychological preparations up to these seniors? Before every game this year, Yovicsin ended his chalk talks with three simple but vital words: "Seniors, take over." He would leave the locker room, and the seniors would communicate with the team as only they knew...
...Brooklyn tavern in August, and who shot a Gallo lieutenant, Joseph Magnasco, in October? If the Gallo gangsters know, they are not talking. As an explanation to the boys about why Crazy Joey had clammed up before the jury, the Brooklyn headquarters of the mob is festooned in locker room fashion with inspirational signs: "Don't talk-the life you save may be your...
...best all season long, unbeaten Michigan State is the nation's top-ranked team. Against powerful Michigan, Saimes played on both defense and offense, spent more time on the field than any other Michigan State player, and scored one touchdown on a brilliant, 17-yd. run. In the locker room just before the Notre Dame game, Saimes lost his contact lenses. But his sight was keen enough to throw six key blocks in the last half and to find holes so effectively that he scored two touchdowns in a frenzied third quarter that buried Irish hopes (17-7). Last...
Lieut. Stanley Poole (Darren McGavin), a hard-bitten campaigner, has been frightened out of his dimmish wits by a directive. To hold his rank, he must pass a college test; to pass the test, he is bribing the post education officer with every last field jacket and wall locker in his supply room. Peter Fonda, an egghead private who goes psycho at the sight of an unsheathed bayonet, offers to tutor McGavin, and soon he is running a class for every Neanderthal man on the post...
Around the league, Maris is known as a "loner" who shuns locker-room monkeyshines, rarely displays emotion on or off the field. After a ball game, still in uniform, Maris sits quietly on a stool in front of his locker for an hour or more, slowly consuming cans of beer and smoking cigarettes. "I just have to get the game out of my system," he says. Maris never answers fan mail personally ("I got enough work to do without writing letters"), makes few charity appearances. "The club shouldn't expect you to go to hospitals. They...