Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week in icy (25°) Yankee Stadium, they entertained the Pittsburgh Steelers in their final performance of the regular season and put on an act that nobody in the crowd of 63,240* is likely to forget. In the process, they also won the Giants their third straight Eastern Conference championship, taking it all away from the Steelers in the second...
...Potato. The first routine was purest comedy-a sort of take-off on that old kids' game, hot potato. With a first down on the Pittsburgh five, Tittle pitched back to Gifford, who started around left end. Oops! Too many Steelers. So Gifford lateraled to Center Greg Larson, who looked at the ball and lateraled to Y. A. Tittle, who looked at the Steelers again. Now, Tittle is no coward, but there are no 37-year-old fools in pro football, either. Back it went to Gifford, who was now over on the right sideline looking for someplace...
...served as a top executive in eight other steel companies before taking over as boss of Jones & Laughlin, where he bitterly contested fellow Choate Man John F. Kennedy's 1962 rollback of steel prices, declaring himself an original member of "the S.O.B. Club"; of a heart attack; in Pittsburgh...
...BOURQUIN Pittsburgh...
...Sunday the New York Giants play off with the Pittsburgh Steelers for the Eastern Division title in the National Football League (channel 5, 2 p.m.). A win or a tie will make the Giants champions, but if the Steelers beat them again--and they pasted the defending champs 31-0 in September--the Giants is dead...