Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Texas was in a downhill slide; the Longhorns' 5-5-1 record last season was the worst in Royal's 20-year reign. With just 16 seniors on a 60-man roster, the inexperienced Longhorns were expected to finish well down in the rugged Southwest Conference this year. As Defensive Coordinator Leon Fuller said at the beginning of the season: "We're so young, we hold hands going onto the field." But Akers and the staff he brought with him immersed their players in a rigorous training program, breaking down and emphasizing the physical requirements of each...
...swarming, stunting defense that, despite seven sophomore starters, has shut out three opponents and given up just one touchdown to the run in ten games. That defense was very much in evidence last weekend as Texas-and Campbell-rolled past overmatched Baylor, 29-7, thus setting up the Southwest Conference title showdown with Texas A. & M. on Saturday...
Jenkins' good ole boy heroes are just the same. Billy Clyde Puckett (Burt Reynolds) is still a natively shrewd running back with a gift for putting on people who think they're smarter than he is because they don't talk in a Southwest Conference drawl. His roommate and lifelong good buddy, Shake Tiller (Kris Kristofferson), is still a sticky-fingered end and an earnest naïf. They are still involved, more as pals than as lovers (though that, in time, develops) with Barbara Jane Bookman (Jill Clayburgh). She is a version of that most delicious...
...town of Coos Bay (pop. 14,132) is nestled in the rolling hills of southwest Oregon, 140 miles north of the California border. It bills itself as "one of the world's foremost lumbering centers and its dock area hums day and night with ships loading wood chips for Japan. Otherwise, it is a collection of modest houses, an attractive downtown shopping area and several motels?most of them strung along U.S. 101, the main street. Its nigh school, a Depression-era legacy of the Public Works Administration, sits prominently on a high hill. When the morning fog clears?...
...shorter features are also good. Fortnightly News is a section in the front containing reports from around the country, this week reporting on anti-nuclear demonstrations at Seabrook; Cesar Chavez's first major organizing attempt outside the Southwest; native Hawaiians' battles with the Defense Department, and the utilities companies' efforts to take over rights to solar energy. The inevitable Washington column is written by Alan Baron, who puts out an insider's newsletter from the capital, and contains some interesting tidbits: Carter's inability to get around Senate recommendations in his efforts to appoint blacks and women to federal judgeships...