Word: schroders
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...more he was questioned by Butts's attorney, former Notre Dame End William Schroder, the more mistakes Griffith remembered from the article. He denied that he had ever used a play called the "88 pop," a maneuver Butts was accused of reporting to Bryant. He denied that his team took a "frightful physical beating" from Alabama, as the Post article claimed. He denied ever telling University of Georgia officials that he would resign if Butts stayed on as athletic director. He denied that his players had come to the sidelines during the game and claimed that they had been...
...going to rely on the technicality that the Saturday Evening Post has the burden of proving the truth," said Attorney Schroder. "We are going to show that Butts did not and could not have done these things." Schroder had got Georgia End Coach Leroy Pearce to admit that after reviewing movies of the game, he could find no evidence that Alabama had taken advantage of the Georgia weaknesses Butts supposedly gave away. Now Schroder called Coach Bryant to the stand...
...blunt, burly citizen, Bryant made a belligerent witness. "Absolutely not," he snapped in answer to Schroder's question. He and Butts had not rigged the game. "If we did, we ought to go to jail." Bryant admitted that he and Butts had often talked football over the telephone, but he insisted that for the most part they had been discussing changes in the interpretations of Southeast Conference rules. Did Butts give him any information about Georgia strategy? "Absolutely not," said Bryant. "And if he had, the first thing I'd think is that they're not going...
...Schroder handed the witness some of Burnett's notes. The very first entry referred to "Bear" Bryant. "Butts never called me Bear," said Bear scornfully."He always called me Paul." As for the notation that Butts had reported Georgia to be "a well-disciplined ball club," Bryant was equally scornful. "If that was said, I think I would be the one that would be saying it." What about Coach Griffith's claims that Burnett's notes contained Georgia's two basic offensive formations, the "slot" and the "pro set"? asked Schroder. Movies of the game, Bryant...
...fact. Besides, he added, "I simply don't see why we must reach a decision now," since there were three other candidates for the job, and he named them: C.D.U. Bundestag Leader Heinrich von Brentano; Adenauer's old crony, Minister Without Portfolio Heinrich Krone; Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder. The gambit did not work: one after the other, to the old man's surprise, each of the three prominent leaders rose to refuse candidacy for the nation's most powerful office...