Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the tastes of the Brattle Street chic, was bound for the Law School after a year off. (That, in itself, surprised Long John. He had begun to think only young Marxists wanted to go to law school. To burrow from within, or so they said.) Bentley was a quarterback, a winner. He had composed a magna thesis in two weeks working with very little research and a very shaky theoretical knowledge. Bentley was against nuclear power and for gun control. But for all of his ACLU Nader's Raiders sensibilities. Bentley--reclining in comfort on his waterbed, propped...
Whatever the reasons for black excellence in athletics, the surpassing skill is evident. The percentage of blacks in professional sports would probably be even higher were it not for the discrimination that still persists. Most athletes know all too well that in football, center, free safety and quarterback are still largely reserved for whites. In baseball, blacks are concentrated in the outfield. In basketball, some teams with largely black rosters will take on-or keep-a white player or two instead of hiring a more talented black, in an effort to maintain the interest of white crowds...
Blacks are particularly bitter about the lack of black quarterbacks in the N.F.L. Says Sociologist Edwards: "It's very interesting that a white man can be a quarterback regardless of what his intellectual reputation is. A black-I don't care what his intellectual reputation is-cannot be a quarterback...
...nine national championships. Yale took the rest. After that, Yale became well-nigh invincible, winning nine consecutive intercollegiate championships. The great Eli golfers of there were John and Archie Reid. Ellis Knowles, Dudley Mudge, DeWitt Balch, Dexter Cummings, Rossiter Betts, Laddy McMohan and Jess Sweetser, who also played quarterback for the Blue...
Plimpton chronicled his stint as a quarterback in the Baltimore Colts-Detroit Lions exhibition game in 1963 in "Paper Lion...