Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-passing Sunday-school teacher that Dallas ever had. For when he is not teaching the youngsters at the Lovers' Lane Methodist Church, bullnecked, rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 195 Ibs.) Don Meredith plays quarterback for Southern Methodist. Last week Meredith had a painfully sprained thumb on his passing hand and a charley horse to boot when he faced tough Texas Tech. But in the fourth period, with the score tied 7-7, Meredith faded with the ball, twice wiggled free of tacklers, and floated a 31-yd. touchdown pass into the end zone. As S.M.U. went...
Despite erratic protection, Meredith has passed for seven of S.M.U.'s 13 touchdowns this year. As a sophomore, he set the alltime completion record for major colleges with a startling 69.6%, at his present clip will finish this season with a three-year mark of 63% to break the record of 62% set last year by Utah's Lee Grosscup (now a scrub-practice quarterback for the New York Giants). "Meredith's uncanny the way he throws," marvels one impressed opponent. "I think he has radar in his receiver's helmets...
...Meredith began passing in the second grade in Mt. Vernon, Texas, where he toddled into the state's cradle-robbing system of organized football. By his senior year in high school, Meredith was all-state in both football and basketball. At S.M.U. he is a business major (C average), counts the days until Christmas vacation when he will marry blonde Cheerleader Lynne Shamburger, wears a complete wardrobe from his father's dry-goods store in Mt. Vernon, and grins at the standard campus gag: Meredith has done more for Mt. Vernon than George Washington...
Quarterback Meredith has certainly done as much for S.M.U. as such greats as Halfbacks Doak Walker ('50) and Kyle Rote ('51), is shepherded with anxious concern by a coaching staff that knows that S.M.U., with not much of a ground offensive, is heavily dependent on his bullwhip right arm. The coaches have still not recovered from the shock of learning that Meredith risked their livelihood by repeatedly falling off a motor scooter while navigating the winding roads of Majorca last summer. Cracks one coach: "If something happens to Meredith, we'll have to resort to the confused...
Blood on a Shirt. Gemello Minore has other shocks for Monsignor Meredith. The Nerone case is a web only sinful men could spin. There is Aldo Meyer, a Jewish doctor and humanist who plays a reluctant Judas to Nerone. There is Nerone's mistress who bore his bastard son and who nightly kneels before his bloody, bullet-torn shirt. The boy, now a troubled adolescent, is himself the prey in a vicious, sensual tug of war between a neurotic drug-taking contessa and a homosexual English painter. Without Author West's innate good taste, these characters might...