Word: mccue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They get juicy "state scholarships," live in three dormitories of their own, are allowed to come and go as they please, play on Saturday afternoons against such bush-league teams as Southern Illinois University and Central Michigan College. But it was not until last fall, when Star Halfback Bobby McCue and two teammates confessed to burglary, that the situation at Western Illinois came out in the open...
...been a singularly unsuited group of men since the war at the institution to participate in athletics. One of them ... is now serving a term of one to 20 years for armed robbery." But, in spite of the scandal, in the two months before sentence was actually passed, McCue was out there on the Western Illinois gridiron, complete with scholarship and the personal approval of President...
...most important thing he did at Wheaton was to court his future wife, Ruth McCue Bell, a pretty, vivacious China missionary's daughter (Emily Cavanaugh had in the meantime married her Harvard man). Said he in a recent sermon: "I tell you ... the first time I kissed [my wife], I don't know whether she had any emotion, but I sure did. And when you fall in love with Jesus, you are. going to feel it ... Now if I had married all the girls ... I wanted to marry, the Lord only knows where I would have been tonight...
...Bruins, who looked generally weak against Ward's curves, had only catcher Lon Murgo's three-bagger and one scratch hit to boast about going into the ninth. John Valinote opened the inning with a double, and Ward hit the next batter, right fielder Bob McCue. Bob MacCounell was given an intentional pass to load the bases, but the next man up third baseman Bobby Wheeler, hit a bag fly to Benny Akillian in left. Akillian's throw was fast but wide; Valinote scored and the game was over...
...error gave the Crimson a run and a temporary edge in the sixth inning. Bernie Akillian singled and scored on right fielder Bob McCue's muff of Dick Clastiy's wind-blown fly. The Bruins, however, clinched the decision in the top of the eighth, combining two singles and a double steal (which had misfired twice before) for two more runs and the game...