Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year's Day 1929, a confused young man named Roy Riegels picked up a fumbled football, ran 75 yards with it-in the wrong direction. Some 70,000 pairs of eyes saw him do it, and millions of ears at radios heard that Roy Riegels, captain-elect of the University of California football team, had presented the Rose Bowl game to Georgia Tech...
Kidded on the campus, pointed at in public, Roy Riegels began to brood. He tried to forget those ten tragic seconds, but the world refused to forget. When, after graduation, he got a job as coach at a California high school, spectators heckled him from the stands: "Why don't you teach them to run the right way?'' When introduced to strangers, he was invariably greeted with the same exclamation: "Oh, you're the guy who ran the wrong...
Every time the Rose Bowl game came around, sportswriters reminded their readers of his monumental blunder. Even last fall, when Oakland féted Transcontinental Flyer Douglas Corrigan, the local entertainment committee dragged Roy Riegels from the asparagus farm where he had retired to avoid people, to shake hands publicly with the new Wrong-Way Champion...
Last week, on the tenth anniversary of his wrong-way run, Roy Riegels' wife filed suit for divorce. Reason: moroseness...
...College food shortage seems unlikely unless all supplies are shut off from Cambridge by the striking truck drivers. Roy W. Westcott, manager of the College dining halls announced last night that since Harvard is on the "preferred" list with hospitals and other institutions, and since the dining halls are well stocked with canned goods and potatoes, no serious trouble is expected...