Word: mike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were all over, blocking with leg-chopping power, tackling with burly fury. If the play was not made by End Marlin McKeever, it likely was made by his identical twin, Guard Mike McKeever. With the McKeever twins clearing the way, Southern California crunched 80 yds. in the final period to defeat hitherto-unbeaten Washington 22-15, proved itself the finest West Coast team in years...
...power behind Southern Cal's surge to the top is an oldfashioned, rib-rattling line that clears the way for T-formation backs. On the basic power sweep to the right, glowering End Marlin McKeever cuts down the tackle, and glowering Guard Mike pulls out to lead the interference. "Maybe they'll stop it the first time," says Coach Don Clark. "Maybe the second and the third. But sooner or later they make a mistake-and you just watch...
...away as the famed muscle factories of Pennsylvania to land Tackle Dan Ficca (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.). But Clark's prize finds were waiting at Mount Carmel High School, right in Southern Cal's own home town of Los Angeles. As high-school All-Americas, Mike and Marlin McKeever got offers from some 40 colleges, including Notre Dame and Oklahoma. Says Marlin: "We picked U.S.C. because of its high scholastic rating, and because the team was down and we were offered a real challenge." End Marlin and Guard Mike both made the first string last year...
...important fights are faked too. Some actors, e.g., Craig Stevens, who was once an amateur boxer, like to throw their own fists in the closeups, but directors are leary of such heroics. So far in 51 scraps, Stevens has had only one accident-a torn fingernail. Darren (Mike Hammer) McGavin has also had only one accident: a broken rib. Still, the producers prefer the standard technique of organizing camera angles so that stunt men can take over. (The stunt men get paid well; they can afford an occasional puffed lip.) The heroes must survive, pressed, currycombed and unscrambled...
...military students seem less Edwardian than determined. Air Academy-man Hosmer (No. 1 in his class) is backed by West Pointers Jim Ray (No. 2 in his class), Stan Karanowski (No. 3), Powell Hutton (No. 4), Mike Gillette (No. 23) and Pete Dawkins (No. 10), West Point's celebrated Ail-American halfback and first captain of cadets. Dawkins will play Rugby only for his intramural Brasenose College team ("not with a splash, but gradually"). Hosmer will do some wistful spare-time flying ("All my classmates are in pilot training"). The real job is Oxford's challenging labor...