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...Mack Herron had carried a passport in his younger days, he could have listed his profession as loser. He majored in football at Kansas State, claimed that friction with his coach cost him a nomination for the Heisman Trophy, and quit school minus his degree. Pro offers were paltry, so Herron went to Canada. There he led the Canadian Football League in rushing but failed to awe the Winnipeg police. When they busted him for possession of marijuana, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers fired him. In 1973 he was back home in Chicago selling blue jeans for a living...
...Quakers and Lions should not strike quite the same fear in the hearts of the Crimson. Today's Ivy League opener, McCurdy said, "won't be as much like running into a Mack Truck as last week's meet was." Harvard, indeed, stands a good chance of capturing its first win of the season...
When a couple of the older, more established vendors from the old Connie Mack Stadium set broke line and joined what was mostly a collection of soon to be returning college student vendors, then the strike line began to look more appetizing to the unconvinced. Most of the kids reasoned that if a few of the more revered career men were willing to pass up a possible fifty bucks, then they shouldn't mind losing a share of the Saturday night...
...have a lot of things to think about before Snake River," said Motorcycle Daredevil Evel Knievel in Toronto last week. Moments later, the two-wheeled wonder eliminated one worry when he arced his cycle over 13 Mack trucks and landed safely 40 yards away, breaking his own world's truck-jumping record. All of which was better than he did in Dallas last February, when he cleared only eleven trucks and broke his back. Despite his $65,000 fee, Knievel's Toronto show was clearly only a tune-up for the big one: his planned...
Until recently, the military draft also made the service academies an attractive alternative. But the new freshmen, unpressured by the draft, are in the words of Admiral Mack, "all here because they wanted to come here from the start...