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...game. Nagurski was a runaway truck who was lucky to be bigger (at 230 lbs.) than most of the people he had to run over in the 1930s. Grange was a 165-lb. scatback, who never ran over anybody at all. Like Brown, he was accused of being a shirker at blocking: "All Grange can do is run," was the classic comment-to which Bob Zuppke, his coach at Illinois, retorted: "All Galli-Curci can do is sing." Van Buren, "the Flying Dutchman," of Coach Greasy Neale's 1948-49 world championship Philadelphia Eagles, was the first great modern...
Picking from faculty suggestions of shirker sophomores and juniors, Amherst Dean C. Scott Porter classified 51 students as potential underachievers. After a careful screening of the students' records, and conferences with them and their parents, five juniors and seven sophomores were told to take a year's leave. Of the twelve who failed to fulfill their potential, one had a B average, the others had C or below. All may return next fall, with what Amherst hopes will be "added maturity and perspective...
...Tenth Grader Joyce, 16, has an IQ of 130. But she failed three subjects last year, and her teachers loaded her report cards with such comments as "No effort, boy friends, more interested in personal appearance than school work." Counseling and conferences did not help; Joyce was an incorrigible shirker. Her school's answer to her case: it simply threw...
Coach Harry Coldstone also pressed in here: "Listen Bill, you are a miserable shirker. T'hell with you if you leave the team...
Many of the department's courses can be avoided by the conscientious shirker and there are a number of the white-shoe clientele in the department. Other men will plod through a schedule which includes, for instance: (besides Gov. 1)., Gov. 112 and 113, 124, 135, 135 and 106 (seniors only). Their impression of Government as a field of concentration will be quite different from that of their brethren as will their education...