Word: run
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defense could not compensate for the gifts bestowed upon Dartmouth by the Crimson offense. After losing ten yards on the first three plays from scrimmage. Harvard had to punt. The kick by Gary Singleterry was run back 65 yards by Tom Quinn for a pitifully easy six points. It was especially easy since there were only ten Harvard men on the field...
That might have been all that Dartmouth would have scored had it not been for two interceptions early in the second quarter. Safety Willie Bogen moved in front of Harvard's Steve Harrison at the Crimson 30 to snare a pass from halfback Ray Hornblower and run it back 19 yards. Three plays later, Jim Chasey scored what proved to be the winning points on a one yard buck...
...second quarter, Dartmouth got into scoring position on a 42-yard pass from quarterback Steve Stetson to end Greg Brown, and scored on a one-yard plunge by Stetson. In the third quarter Stetson, who completed 13 of 18 passes for the day, scored again on an eleven-yard run, Dartmouth got its last two points on a safety...
Accordingly, we Americans tend to run through great numbers of short-lived heroes at a colossal rate. In recent years we have used and used up Ernest Hemingway, Otis Redding, a string of Kennedys, Joe Namath, Bob Dylan, Malcolm X, even George Plimpton (for God's sake). It is next to impossible to survive as a culture hero: you either die or you are exposed. (Or, in the saddest cases, both...
...disparate guests to hold his audience. Senator Edmund Muskie soloed for 37 minutes. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr.-who rattled off lines like, "I am probably the only living American, black or white, that just doesn't give a damn"-holds the record so far with a run of 39 minutes...