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...tackles are the strongest spots on a strong line. The Crimson will have a tough job moving Phil Tarasovic, a huge 6-4, 205-pounder from Bridgeport, Conn., and Bob Gallaway, another giant at 6-1 and 211 pounds from While Plains, N.Y. The Blue will miss Tom Henderson, a valuable man on defense...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 11/20/1954 | See Source »

...halfbacks are both good and both fast. Senior Jim Lopez, a hard-driving 167-pounder from Watertown, Mass., will open at left half, and sophomore Dennis McGill at right. McGill, from North Bergen, N.J., has been called by Olivar, "the greatest Yale runner since Levi Jackson." Sophomores Al Ward and Charlie Peet will be called upon for reserve duty...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 11/20/1954 | See Source »

...coach hard, winning football has been his object since boyhood. "I only got to play once before I went to college," he recalls. "It was on a home-town sandlot in Punxsutawney, Penn., against a mining team. I was in long enough to tackle a big 240-pounder before my father grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and pulled me off the field...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: "Sock It to 'Em" | 11/20/1954 | See Source »

...bulls in Mexico's smaller rings. As soon as her technique matched her courage, said her trainer, she could move on to fight in the big ring of Mexico City. But those goals seem further away now than when Pat wrote about them. Last month, fighting a thousand-pounder at Villa Acuna, Torero, McCormick suffered her third and most serious goring. Recuperating at her parents' home in Big Spring, Texas, Pat vows she will fight again as soon as the doctors let her-probably next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brave Blonde | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...Duke of Edinburgh, who used to have a pretty good left hook himself, decided that his son should learn the manly art at an early age. Stephen was chosen to be a sparring partner by his school boxing instructor who was appointed to teach Prince Charles. Stephen, a 45-pounder who is boxing champion of his age group at school, is five pounds heavier than his opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fit for a Prince? | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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