Word: player
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whipped. We've got to be cussed. ... He whipped us, but we needed whipping." This is no simple disciple of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch talking, but a professional football player trying to attain the mystical condition of "upness" or "winning attitude," which, according to American tradition, has to be artificially induced by alternate whippings and strokings from an older...
...more or less the result. He shows that all was not beating and moaning in Lombardi's bedlam. "Tomorrow, I imagine, Coach Lombardi'll pat him on the head, rub his back, scratch his ears, and everybody'll feel a little better," he writes of one player. At other times, Coach leads his bulls in song. All very sincere, all very calculated. What makes the diary interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even in some twisted way enjoys it. He describes Lombardi as primarily a child psychologist...
...room with the guy on road trips, and he certainly seems mortal." -- Calvin Hill, a football player...
...Football players denied yesterday that anyone had ordered the additional tickets with the intention of scalping them. "When we ordered them a few weeks ago no one even knew that this game would be so crucial, and tickets so much in demand," one player said. But some team members have apparently been unable to resist the astronomical prices currently being offered, he added...
Hall recovered in time for the Dart-mouth contest, but Cramer had proved himself to be so effective that Yovicsin kept him in the starting lineup, moving him to right end. Cramer justified the coach's confidence by making six tackles and was named Harvard's most valuable defensive player of the game by the Crimson staff...