Word: player
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilkinson also had to prove that he could communicate with a breed of player far different from the arrow-straight, eager-to-please and crewcut young man he had marshaled at Oklahoma. In years, at least, the generation gap was very wide indeed. End Dave Stief, who was born eleven years after the end of World War II, was startled whenever Wilkinson began reminiscing about his days on a carrier in the South Pacific: it all seemed so long ago. Yet Wilkinson had no trouble joining in the team's revelry. He adroitly managed to get through the initiation...
...this helped, but far more important was the fact that the players came to respect Wilkinson as a man. His coaching technique, deceptively simple to describe, is based on convincing each player that he can perform better than he ever has-that he can "maximize" his talents, in Wilkinson's favorite phrase. At the same tune, Wilkinson worked to maintain a spirit of unity and optimism on a losing team. He is succeeding. The Cardinals have come to admire Wilkinson's brand of quiet intensity. Says Offensive Tackle Dan Dierdorf, the team's leader...
...Harvard football player, the game with Princeton must have run the gamut of emotions. Tears mingled with lightning, embarrassment with hope, and when the officials inadvertently poked their noses into the affair, anger danced with disbelief...
...only singles player who had any difficulty winning at all, Sally Roberts at number six, woke up after a sluggish start which saw her drop the first set of her match to Kathy Carey, and collected all but two of the remaining games...
...Player-coach Bob Tedaldi's quarterback sneak from the two-yard line capped a 90-yd., third-quarter drive for the game's only score...