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...right. As they passed midcourt, the two men on the outside converged toward Austin, and began to work legerdemain with their passing. Even if two or three Crimson players had scrambled into the backcourt to defend, the only way of stopping the blits was to commit a foul or pray that a B.C. player would blow his shot...
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...only we stay healthy," the coaches pray, and with good reason. A few strategic injuries can turn a team's strength into weakness, and ruin a promising season before the first game. A team fights a constant battle to protect its players against physical damage...
...somebody wearing a letter who hadn't participated in athletics, he'd take it away from him and tell him to turn out for the team." Ara's mother was violently against football; whenever she went to a game, she spent the afternoon hiding under the stands, praying for Ara's safety. It would have been kinder to pray for the other fellow. South High Coach Frank ("Doc") Wargo remembers one encounter against Steubenville High, an Ohio Valley team made up mostly of miners' sons. "Ara was tough. But Steubenville had a tough fullback too. On the first play from...
...ingloriously compliant, many individual churchmen in particular were outspoken foes of the regime. Clemens Cardinal von Galen of Miinster denounced the Nazis' euthanasia program from the pulpit, halting, at least for a time, the mass murder of feeble-minded and spastic children. After calling upon his congregation to pray for the Jews, Father Bernhard Lichtenberg, dean of Berlin's St. Hedwig Cathedral, was sent to his death at Dachau. The gifted Protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer joined the conservative anti-Nazi movement as early as 1935, was executed moments before liberation...