Word: reided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn QB Bob Graustein picked apart the highly acclaimed Princeton defense for 239 passing yards enroute to the Quakers' upset win. The rivals entered the fourth quarter in a 14-14 deadlock. Tiger mainstay Bob Reid and Penn counterpart Jack Wixted had accounted for all the scoring at that stage of the pivotal debacle...
...Reid and Wixted exchanged short TD runs in the third quarter, after snaring first half scoring passes, to set the stage for some final period fireworks. Wixted, the second leading rusher in Penn history, scored his third TD on a one-yard plunge. A 35-yard field goal by Tim Nanzetti put the game out of the Tigers futile grasp...
...members of the press corps, a writer named Bryan Woolley and a photographer named Ford Reid, decided to go beyond the usual get-some-quotes-from-the-hillbillies-and-write-it-up. We Be Here When the Morning Comes is the product of a month--the last month of the strike, August 1974--of living with the Brookside miners...
Their editors at The Courier-Journal, a Louisville daily, agreed that something more than spot news coverage was needed, and agreed to sponsor the book. Reid and Woolley lived with roof-bolter miner Louie Stacy and hung out at Junior Deaton's general store. They recorded what the people were saying and doing, and, inevitably, empathized with them...
...Here is mostly large chunks of miners' dialogue and still photos that avoid the sensational. Reid and Woolley portray sensitive, shrewd, brave mountain folks instead of hillbilly pawns. Like a similar documentary four decades ago on Alabama tenant farmers by James Agee and Walker Evans, We Be Here was rejected by the editors who commissioned it. Fortunately, another unabashedly subjective book on some not-so-famous people deserving of praise has finally made it into print...