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Eight days after the disastrous Harvard-Yale game, Brian Dowling won a minor victory in Boston as the Gridiron Club named him winner of the annual George "Bulger" Lowe award as New England's outstanding college football player. Dowling will come back to Boston on Dec. 10 to receive the award at a banquet...
...contact sport, the danger of injury is always present. In football, sooner or later, everyone gets hurt-and more often than not, he gets hurt in the knee. Obviously, the football player's knee is crucial. It must function perfectly to permit all the feinting, cutting, spinning, twisting, blocking, running and tackling that are the basic elements of his increasingly violent trade...
...well-known Los Angeles orthopedist. "There will be a little more play in the knee, a slight feeling of instability. Your thigh will tend to keep going after your foot stops. It's a weird sensation." At best, the doctors can restore only 60% of a player's former prowess; the other 40% is up to the player himself. Not everybody can or wants to play football on a knee that is inherently weaker and susceptible to further injury. Halfbacks Johnny Roland of the St. Louis Cardinals and Tucker Frederickson of the New York Giants were spectacular...
...another, the injury is permanent. Even the most expertly reconstructed knee will loosen in time. And with age, arthritis is likely. The obvious answer is to avoid such injuries in the first place. Protective knee braces are available, but they dramatically restrict a player's mobility. Replacing stadium turf with artificial grass in which cleats are less likely to catch also promises help. So do shorter cleats. Some doctors insist that the knees of all youngsters who turn out for football in high school should be examined so that the weak and injury-prone can be weeded...
Died. Fresco Thompson, 66, vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, who spent 46 years in the game as a player, manager, farm-system director and front-office executive; of uremic poisoning; in Fullerton, Calif...