Word: nelson
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First, middle Gordie Nelson scored on a sweep to give the visitors the lead. Then Jerry Keleher bulled his way through a trio of defenders for goal number eight. Next, it was Nelson on another sweep and Jim Egasti with a one-handed shot, and Harvard was in command...
Over the years, the lethal 12th has been the site of countless tragedies. In the 1937 Masters, Ralph Guldahl, a stolid Norwegian, had a four stroke lead coming up to the 12th. His tee shot rolled into Rae's Creek for a double bogey and Byron Nelson went on to win by shooting a birdie on the same hole and an eagle on the 13th. In 1959, Arnold Palmer also met a watery grave as Art Wall birdied six of the final seven holes to catch him from behind...
...Between 1955-1967, Palmer, Nicklaus, and Player won eight out of nine. Ben Hogan and Sam Snead both won three times. After winning with a tournament record of 274 in 1953, Hogan said, "I hope I can come back next year and play the same caliber of golf." Byron Nelson, his playing partner, replied, "If you do, you'll be playing here all by yourself...
...game last Spring, the Harvard offense was clearly not clicking, so Crimson coach Bob Scalise prepared for the clash with Penn by shuffling his inexperienced midfields and moving Predun to attack, where he could play full-time and make the best of his flashy one-on-one moves. Gordie Nelson moved to a midfield slot...
Died. William Stuart Nelson, 81, former dean of religion at Washington's Howard University and an early advocate, along with Martin Luther King Jr., of nonviolent protest to combat racial segregation; in Hyattsville, Md. A soft-spoken but self-assured Baptist minister. Nelson became a convert to the strategy of passive resistance after he met Mahatma Gandhi in India in 1946. In the early 1960s, he predicted that it would "reshape the entire structure of race relations...