Word: passing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between football heroes Richmond Flowers of Tennessee and Earl "the Pearl" McCullouch of Southern Cal in the 60-yard high hurdles produced more excitement than even the most optimistic fans had anticipated. McCullouch, a flanker on USC's championship team, jumped to his usually fast start. But Flowers, a pass receiver from Tennessee, demonstrated more football skill as he lunged and tumbled past the tape a fraction of a second ahead of his rival. Flowers' time of 7.0 tied McCullouch's NCAA indoor record...
Long before the day when helmets had facemasks--when the forward pass was still a revolutionary innovation and football was still second to baseball as the national pasttime--Harvard fielded its first, and only, Rose Bowl team...
...having its unbeaten record marred only by a 10-10 tie with Princeton. Led by lightning halfback "Natick Eddie" Casey, Harvard's only All-American in 1919, the Crimson scored a phenomenal 222 points to their opponents' 13 during the regular campaign. Casey was an exceptional runner and pass receiver...
From Cunning to Frenzy. ABC put on Wolper Productions' three-part documentary based on William L. Shirer's exhaustive 1959 history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. "Historical villains can sometimes become heroes as the years pass," says Producer-Director Jack Kaufman. "I think it's important to remind young people not to dismiss past horrors lightly or think of Hitler as a kind of fantasy or legend...
...students, the report contained nearly 100 recommendations backed by arguments so well-reasoned that, says Dean of Women Alice Emerson, it "put the stamp of quality on undergraduate thinking." In response, Penn administrators approved such changes as allowing students to take one course a semester on a "pass or fail" basis, fashion their own individualized major and sit on curriculum committees...