Word: moran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Crimson fought back mightily, the Praying Colonels held fast and preserved their triumph. Newspapers all over the country were quick to proclaim Centre's win as an upset. As years passed, the story of coach Charlie Moran's little country boys who prayed in the locker room before going out onto the field spread, and the 1921 game became a football legend...
...Says Moran: "The picture changed completely, from a routine effort at radio assistance to the possibility of a protracted search with little promise of success. For even if we did make contact, this young pilot would still have the problem of descending through the overcast without instruments...
...Moran turned northeast toward Albany, he called Student Stultz, told him to begin circling and watching for the DC-6. A few moments later, Stultz called...
Stultz's last words got cut off, and in the American cockpit the crew froze. "We thought he had bought the farm," says Moran [meaning that he had cracked up]. But Stultz came back on, called happily that he had spotted an air marker on a roof below. It told him that he was above Coeymans Hollow. Albany Tower, checking with state police, informed Captain Moran that Stultz was only 20 miles south of the field. Moran radioed...
...half an hour before Stultz spotted the airliner below him. Together they flew above the woolly overcast toward Albany. Stultz heard Moran again...