Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, stocky Crain, known to his teammates as "Bull," has been a consistently strong runner both this year and last. A standout his freshman year, Crain was considered a member of the varsity's "Big Three" both last year (with Ed Hamlin and Ed Meehan) and this (with Meehan and Walt Hewlett...
...Roger Staubach, 21: the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the best college football player in the U.S. Everybody's All-America, Navy Quarterback Staubach made a runaway of the voting by sportswriters and broadcasters (polling 517 first-place votes to 65 for Runner-up Billy Lothridge of Georgia Tech), became the fourth junior ever to win the trophy and the first since Ohio State's Vic Janowicz...
...buying up huge Oklahoma City oil leases, then pushing through a 1936 referendum to allow drilling inside city limits. He led the drive that got Phillips, then just a supplier, into marketing (with 23,440 gas stations) and pushed the extensive research that has made Phillips a front runner in petrochemicals and gas. Result: Phillips now ranks eighth among the majors, with 1962 sales of $1.2 billion. Another nod led to the construction of a record-sized (22,000 tons) tanker for hauling refrigerated gas, launched last week in Sweden. Adams' finds it equally hard...
...peripatetic athlete who visited briefly at Texas, Texas Christian and Cameron State Junior College, Looney was on the Oklahoma first-string at season's start; then he slugged an assistant coach in practice and was summarily booted off the team. But Looney is a fine punter, a devastating runner, and obviously aggressive enough for the pros. The scouts' second choice: Jim Grisham, 20 (6 ft. 2 in., 211 lbs.), the current Oklahoma fullback...
These talents are not inconsiderable. For instance, Wally Grant, Harvard's leading runner, was expected to provide little more than moral support last Saturday. Now he has had time to strengthen his leg and refresh his memory on play patterns. His return to active service will restore some versatility to the Crimson attack...