Word: player
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unruh is not an impressive person. He is large; he used to be even larger, when he weighed nearly 300 pounds and was called Big Daddy. He looks like a football player, but like a football player who can no longer run or block or tackle, a football player who after all these years can only serve the team by punting...
...background for some shots of a Harvard-Cornell game. The time spent on the actual filming was not much, but setting up shots and organizing extras and other such chores stretched one or two short hockey sequences into a three-day stint. The hero, Oliver, is a hockey player from Winthrop House, and Jenny (Ali McGraw) comes to see him play. As Ryan O'Neal, who plays Oliver, had never been on skates until two days before, Bill Cleary, the freshman hockey coach, stood in for him on the long shots-wearing a blond wig that curled out from under...
...even before that, when American college hockey was played by Americans, the system produced only one player for the National Hockey League-Tommy Williams. So unless the caliber of home-grown competitors has improved independently since that time, it is dubious that the proposed restriction will do much to increase the number of Americans the professional ranks...
Yale's use of Jack Langer, a basketball player ruled ineligible by the NCAA, has led to the possibility that all of the games in which he plays will be forfeited to the opponent...
...appears to be a much improved player this year. As the backup center behind John Whiston. Langer scored 18 points in a 93-63 loss to Fordham. "He was our only decent ball player that night." said Michael Goodman of the Yale Daily News...