Word: loree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shadow continually proves that men do not have a monopoly on first-rate sports reportage. Writer Carol Sobieski, working loosely from a story by John McPhee, takes a cynical attitude toward her characters' obsession with winning, and she leavens her familiar narrative with gritty bits of lore from the backwaters of quarter-horse racing. She accurately re-creates the arduous rituals of training, the sweaty romance of jockeying and the cracker-barrel humor of the eccentrics who build their entire lives around long shots...
...cabinet's contents go much further back into Harvard gridiron lore. Correspondence between Yale's legendary coach Walter Camp and Harvard's 1898 national championship mentor W. Cameron Forbes reveals the tandem's activism in re-writing the rules for the rapidly growing sport...
...from Plains will add his lore to this travelogue, filled with moments that have changed the world, footnoted with the sublime and the ridiculous but rarely dull or meaningless. The sport of Presidents has gained another enthusiast...
Although the pen of Mort Sadow may not be a match for the Bard himself, anyone who chats briefly with Mr. Sadow will concur that there are few who can rival his encyclopedial knowledge of Crimson football lore. Sadow is such a devote of Harvard tradition that he disdains wearing a Crimson sweater, opting for what he describes as a bluer hue of red or magenta. Magenta was originally selected as the team color for Harvard on January 24, 1873 before Crimson was later adopted. By the way, the word "glowing" in Sadow's poem should be printed in "purple...
Walpole--and the image it conjures--mean a lot to the kids in the van and others like them. Some have relatives out there, most know ex-cons, all are familiar with the often romanticized lore that comes out of such places. Few, however, actually visited the prison before some inmates got together in 1975 and formed, independent of the prison administration and outside groups, a counseling program designed to reach youthful offenders through those who knew about prison life--the prisoners themselves...