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BOULDER, Colo.--Students at the University of Colorado recently installed a bust of Alferd E. Packer, recognized as America's only convicted cannibal, in the corridor of a dininghall grill...
...spoof actually began 15 years ago when the students voted to name the dining facility the Alferd E. Packer Memorial Grill. Every spring since then the university has held an Alferd E. Packer day that features a series of eating contests for the students...
Alferd E. Packer, an ex-Union soldier was sentenced to 40 years in the state penitentiary after having been convicted for killing and eating his five companions during an 1874 snowstorm in Colorado; the group had been searching for gold fields...
...Irish defense diligently cut off the angles on most outside shots. But Harvard repeatedly worked the ball to the area in front of the goal, and Notre Dame goalie Chris Packer was ineffective, recording no saves in the period. Four goals in 90 seconds, including two by Co-Captain Dave Fast, broke the game open midway through the quarter...
...when former 15th-round draft pick Willie Davis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Green Bay wing, he chose Eddie Robinson to introduce him at the ceremonies. Davis had a sense that his Packer coach, the late Vince Lombardi, was present too in Robinson. "They were both tough disciplinarians," he says, "with soft human sides. They made football a lesson of life. Maybe some of the problems in the game now-you know, drugs-are rooted in the fact that you don't hear coaches described that way much any more...