Word: patterson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Receiving: Bro--Morey 11-116, Burns6-45, Lairson 6-69, Wall 2-24, Coyne 2-5, Campbell2-19; Har--Mitchell 8-62, Heller 5-57, Patterson,T. 3-37, Belczyk...
...week, the Crimson seemed to miss Colby Skelton '98's punt returns more than it did his pass receptions. Junior Terence Patterson only returned two Schlobohm's seven punts, and those for a measly nine yards...
...second quarter punts that Patterson let fall were downed at the Harvard 5- and 1-yard lines, resulting in three-and-out drives...
...chatter had been just a good joke. Suddenly he was the heavyweight champion of the world, a position that, like Queen of England and Archbishop of Canterbury, carried certain moral responsibilities. So was Clay planning to be yet another credit to his race, like Joe Louis and Floyd Patterson, or was he going to be the other kind of black champ, a devil incarnate, like Liston then and Mike Tyson...
Although the powers that be, from the President to Frank Sinatra, prayed for another saint, the public was happy either way. Hating a Liston was just as much fun as respecting a Patterson, and just as painful for the victim-challenger. In brilliant sketches of the archetypes, Remnick suggests Liston was trapped in his badness--people wanted him to be a bum forever--while Patterson lived in constant fear of not being good enough...