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Then Joe Restic came down from the wide-open Canadian pros, and the Boston sportswriters agreed that Harvard football would suddenly become worth watching. However, the new offense managed only three touchdown drives in two games, and the plays that ground out yardage against Northeastern began to look suspiciously like Yovicsin's. Furthermore, another dependable feature of Harvard football during recent years re-emerged. The players started complaining about the coaching...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: On the Bench | 10/8/1971 | See Source »

Football Is Football. For Prothro and Devine, two of the most celebrated coaches ever to jump from college football into the pros, the opening games were a rude initiation into the big leagues. For the other pro teams, they were merely proof that the newcomers were, as Dallas Cowboy Coach Tom Landry had predicted, "going to find it's a different game." Devine, who says that he was hit but unhurt "30 to 50 times" while patrolling the sidelines at the University of Missouri, might well agree. Nonetheless he insists that "football is football, whatever the level." Like former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Names in the Biggest Game | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

...Pros and Cons...

Author: By Mark Welshimer, | Title: Lowenstein, Riegle Stress Primary Vote | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

Riegle urged students who have the option of registering to vote in Massachusetts instead of their home states to "weigh the pros and cons seriously. The New Hampshire primary, for instance, is the most important single political event before the election itself. If we beat Nixon there, he's done...

Author: By Mark Welshimer, | Title: Lowenstein, Riegle Stress Primary Vote | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

...musical score by Dominic Frontiere that sounds as if it were lifted straight out of some industrial short like The Glory of Tupperware. Brown solemnly informs us, via the sound track, how dangerous the whole business of bike racing really is, and his attitude toward such pros as Mert Lawwill and Malcolm Smith and talented amateurs like Steve McQueen is plainly, sometimes embarrassingly, adulatory. In the course of his narration Brown mentions that there are 4,000,000 motorcycle riders in the U.S., which gives him a neatly packaged audience who will presumably be more sympathetic toward On Any Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dual Exhaust | 8/16/1971 | See Source »

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