Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mighty efforts of Howie Houston. I thumbed through my program to find out that number 77's name was Willie Davis. When Army center Bill Yeomans was flattened by Crimson guard John Coan, I slapped the major on the back. And at the end of the game, I saw the Crimson, standing at attention, better than the Cadets, while the Band played "Fair Harvard." I didn't gave a damn that we'd lost the game. We'd gained something deeper...
...saw the end, who was off-side in the Dartmouth game when one of our backs scored the second T. D. which would have given us at least a tie, walking alone after the game, like a guy who gets an E in the final. And I saw the dreadful look in his eyes when he walked into the medical room where the rest of the team was. Everyone on the team, including the back, shook his hand...
...Saturday we beat Holy Cross I saw two guys I'd never heard of, and another that I'd forgotten, torpedo those huge Holy Cross linesmen. They were Dick Guidera, Jerry Kanter, and Nick Rodis. I could not imagine, too, how I had forgotten number 77's name because he was getting endless tackles. Then there was little Hal Moffle who took a handoff from Nick Athans and went 80 some yards for a T. D. None of these men individually was a hero, it dawned upon me: they were a businesslike team...
Davey is a little reticent about that Harvard game. "I only played the first half. They were looping their defenses, and I started squawking in the huddle. Mr. Crisler saw it, and I was out of there for the rest of the game...
...such terms Agnes Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, had set up a fund in memory of her husband. Harvard was left a free hand under the grant to set up the program as it saw fit. What the University has accomplished in a decade is unique in both education and journalism...