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Seven for Eight. The Wild-Goose Man knows all about cover. Until a few years ago he held another unofficial title: prince of the poachers. Son of a gypsy father who migrated south from Yorkshire, Thorpe was raised in Sutton Bridge, a marsh village of flight netters and punt gunners who thrived on wild-fowling. His grandmother, a formidable woman named Leviathan, was famed for her skill at pouncing on nesting pheasants and sweeping up both birds and eggs in her petticoats. After graduating from slingshot to birdshot, Thorpe began poaching in earnest...
...Philadelphia Eagles' Billy Walik caught a Giant punt and broke loose for a 45-yd. runback. ABC-TV Commentator Howard Cosell spoke up in his distinctive nasal twang: "While we were walking up to the booth tonight, my colleague, Dandy Don Meredith, said: 'Howard, you watch, Walik is going to break a punt tonight.' " To which Colleague Meredith cheerfully replied: "Now, Hahrd, Ah didn't say that. But if you say Ah said it, Ah'll stick with it." Pause. "Hahrd, why do you always do that to me?" The gang in the press...
...Crimson punt with no time remaining would not have made any difference either. The Harvard defense, which played beautifully throughout
...defense, which had played so beautifully throughout the first half, rose to the occasion, and forced a Yale punt. Despite a low snap from center, Eli Jim Nottingham just got the kick off and it was downed on the Crimson...
Yale got a colossal break when Rich Gatto was speared after catching an Eli punt three plays later and fumbled and the Harvard 18. But the defense held again, and Klebanoff rew a field goal from the 23 to make the score...