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Fire Chief Charles J. Quinlan, and the truth probably lies somewhere in between. For one thing, insurance adjusters naturally tend to put a low figure on damages. More important, the adjusters' estimate referred only to insured losses within the riot areas, where many looted and burned-out properties were only partially insured, or without coverage altogether...
Both squads came close in the third period as the game opened up a little. At the six minute mark, Terrier Shaun Quinlan tipped a defenseman's shot over the Crimson cage, and then missed the net from ten feet away. Minutes later, with Harvard's Daly in the penalty box, B.U.'s Sobeski misfired from the corner of the Crimson net with Welch out of position...
Methodically, relentlessly, Lombardi set out to build his winner. He traded boldly and shrewdly; from Cleveland alone, he got four of this year's Packer stars: Halfback Lew Carpenter, Tackle Henry Jordan, Defensive Ends Bill Quinlan and Willie Davis-two of the fiercest pass rushers in pro ball. Safetyman Willie Wood, an agile opportunist who leads the N.F.L. with nine pass interceptions this year, was signed as a free agent-nobody else wanted him-and All-League Guard Fred Thurston was a three-time loser (Chicago. Philadelphia. Baltimore) when Lombardi rescued him from obscurity in a trade with...
...ground, and in the second half, he pulled up the Air Force with him. A daring fourth-down pass put the Air Force on the Army 15. Two plays later, he so artfully faked a hand-off up the middle that the converging Army defense never saw Halfback Mike Quinlan circling left end until it was too late...
With a bare two minutes left, Mayo pulled off the flashiest play of the game: apparently kneeling to hold a field-goal try on fourth down, he carefully kept his knee off the ground, rose to fire a 21-yd. strike to Quinlan to put the Air Force on the Army 21. But when a real field-goal try failed, Mayo and the Air Force had to settle...