Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third, fourth, and fifth place finishers, all Crimson runners, were Jed Fitzgerald, Fred HOward, and Ed HAmlin. Greg Baldwin, who came in seventh behind UMass runner Bob Biomstrom, provided the last Crimson score...
...breakaway runner like Bobby Mitchell of the Browns or Hugh McElhenny of the San Francisco Forty Niners really gives me fits. You've got to beat their blockers, and then you've got to watch out for their fakes. Mitchell has literally faked me off my feet. It's too risky to tackle them low. I hit them high and wrestle them down. It's not the way you're taught in college, and it's not pretty-but it's effective...
Patter of Footsteps. On offense, Schloredt is a ground-gaining runner. "He's a blacksmith type of boy," says Assistant Coach Tipps. "He's used to running into folks and he don't mind it a bit." Adds Schloredt: "I've always had strong legs. And there's something about the way I run that gives the illusion of slowness, so that a lot of people have tried to tackle me after I was already past them. It's nothing I invented. It's just an illusion...
...only nine gold medals (v. 15 in the 1956 Olympics), set chauvinistic officials to charging that the best event of American athletes was the marathon of wine, women and song. Lost in the furor was the obvious fact that the U.S. still easily dominated men's track (runner-up Russia had five gold medals) and had, in fact, sprung major surprises of its own on the world by grabbing nine gold medals in swimming, three in wrestling and three in boxing. By far the soundest judgment on the U.S. performances at the 1960 Olympic Games came from Manhattan College...
...heat, plunged into gloriously chaotic traffic jams and struggled out to see the greatest show in sports. For a close-up view of the athletes, Romans lined an elevated highway that passed Olympic Village and peered at the girls through binoculars. Cracked California's 800-meter runner. Pat Daniels: "I feel like a monkey in a cage." One rubbernecker made it past frantic Italian guards at the gate of the men's quarters by simply stripping to his shorts and running...