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...quarterback whom Williams understudied, last year's young pro bowler Jay Schroeder, 26, was demoted, reinstated and then finally shelved this season in one of the most dramatic reversals of form in league history. Reports that the Redskin players were muttering for Williams on the sidelines have been denied, but he does say, "I've had a lot of encouragement from the guys on this team, white, black or whatever. They respect me." His completion percentage against the Vikings was ghastly (nine of 26), but as the citizens of Denver will agree, the result is what counts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Tangle of Broncos and Redskins | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Former Washington Redskin Bryant J. Salter helped evacuate Americans from Grenada during his term as a U.S. Consul in a nearby Carribean Island. Before that, he was the first Black foreign service officer assigned to South Africa...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Back to School for Nation's Politicos | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

WILLIAM & MARY 35, PRINCETON 31. Princeton quarterback Doug Butler, taking a page out of Redskin signalcaller Joe Theismann's book, tries to get his last name to rhyme with "Heisman" to improve his chances of winning that famous trophy...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Hot Dog! It's the Colonial League | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

...three...uh...uh...four," while fumbling with a tape that keeps blasting out the Goldberg variations. Nostalgically, he reminisces about all the dopey things he loved to do as President. These memories include sitting at his desk "with the fireplace running and the air-conditioning on" and inviting over Redskins stars on the white phone while discussing bombing Cuba with Kissinger on the red phone. Insanely, he tells his microphone how after Watergate the press and the liberals ate him alive--" an army of Ralph Naders and Jane Fondas and Jews and Redskin rats." Holding a gun to its metallic...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Lacking Any Honor | 2/14/1984 | See Source »

...dealings with Dallas (charges of spying and other dirty tricks). Allen's disdain for the Cowboys prohibited him from calling one of his own players, Defensive End Dallas Hickman, by his first name. "George Allen never used to say 'the Dallas Cowboys,' " recalls John Wilbur, a Redskins guard of that time. "It was always 'the goddamned Dallas Cowboys.' " In a ringing inaugural address, Allen pledged never to lose to them. At Dallas that first October a Redskin runner named Charley Harraway ran this-and thataway, every which-a-way, and Allen's credibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hail to the Redskins | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

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