Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern Governors' Conference at Sea Island, Ga., stopping on the way to see the Georgia-Texas football game at Atlanta. ("He's really lapping up the glory," said one of his fellow governors. "There were 33,000 people at the game, and every time they cheered a play, Faubus stood up and bowed.") The next night Faubus cavorted in the Silver Room of Sea Island's Cloister Hotel, signing autographs, sipping bourbon and Seven-Up, and dancing. Orval Faubus was the life of the party. The night wore on-and the dawn approached when he would...
...Minnesota alumnus sent Bobby to Minneapolis to sample the pleasures of life in a Big Ten football factory, but instead, Bobby moved to Seattle to play football for the University of Washington. By the end of his sophomore season, he was first-string quarterback, already building a reputation as a triple-threat gambler. He could run like a bulldozer and pass like a pro. He specialized in exasperating his coaches and exciting his fans by calling for such outrageous maneuvers as a third-down pass with only 1 yd. to go for a touchdown...
While they march and wheel, their cymbals whirling, their diced hose and white spats blurring in high-kneed unison, they play such lilting Scots tunes as Thistle Green and Wee MacGregor. On their heels, majestically slow, come 28 pipers and twelve drummers in a stunning rendition of standard Black Watch ceremonials. The Crimean Reveille starts with a single, furiously impatient bugle call that gives way to the pipes and drums skirling and moaning through The Soldier's Return and other wild pipe tunes-The Green Hills of Tyrol, King George V's Army, The Highland Laddie...
...part, Yovicsin will have only 33 men ready to play, the smallest opening day squad in recent years. Neither of his second-team ends, Hal Keohane and Stu Hershon, will be available. Keohane was rushed to a hospital yesterday with a suspicion of appendicitis, and Hershon will be observing Yom Kippur. Another end, John Soucek, will be in uniform but will not play. All the other players will be ready, although sophomore center Carl Framke, still out of condition after an appendectomy, will probably not see action...
Marshall Schwarz continues to hold up at right half, and will in all probability play the entire game today, as he did Wednesday...