Word: pickett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard secondary crowded us a little bit more than we expected," UMass coach Bob Pickett said after the game. "We felt we could hit on the long pass." And hit they did--though not always without the help of a penalty flag...
...Harvard eleven has plans of its own, and head coach Joe Restic & Co. would love nothing better than to make today's contest Pickett's Last Charge--Pickett, that is, as in Minuteman coach...
...Pickett's squad has few weaknesses on either side of the ball, and if there are any outstanding strengths it has to be their size and their running game...
...mind he marched with Pickett and Pettigrew in the masses of the main charge across the rolling fields and up to the stone fence and over, where the Confederacy reached its high-water mark. He stood in his imagination for a moment with the few troops who had breached the Union line, his heart working to grasp the commotion and the meaning of those terrible days 115 years ago at Gettysburg...
...John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry. The President leaped up on the rocks, put field glasses to his eyes to peer into the woods and gazed on the weathered monuments. Was Lee trying to save ammunition at Gettysburg? he asked. Where was the wheatfield? How far did Pickett have to come? (Nearly a mile.) "Why Lee did not bring his generals together that night, I'll never understand...