Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that perfect job with the perfect company. Yet for a small group of seniors, plans for the immediate future are based not on a personnel man's questions but on their own violent demonstrations. They are the college-football players who hope that they have shown enough size, speed, skill and strength to be selected by professional football scouts to play...
...Paul Gipson, Houston, 6 ft., 205 Ibs. The scouts are calling 1968 the Year of the Running Back. Reason No. 1 is Heisman Trophy Winner Simpson, everybody's All-Everything. The pros liken his bulling power, his marvelous moves and his explosive speed to a cross between Jim Brown and Gale Sayers. That means, as one scout says, that "he is the greatest college runner in 10-20-50 years-unbelievable!" Noting that OJ. ran the ball an average of 35 times a game this season, the scouts talk in awed tones about his "incredible durability." Reason...
...result of research by Department of Agriculture scientists, an unskilled la borer can now equal the speed of a shear er by literally peeling wool from a sheep with his bare hands...
...been playing quite well thus far," Cousy said. "Our defense has been exceptional. But Harvard has a good club with general strength. They have excellent speed, Ernie Hardy under the boards, and an outstanding individual in Dale Dover. I'm surprised their record is only 1-2, though it is always hard at the beginning with a new coach and a new system...
...Harrison gives me a chance to use all the abilities I have -- jumping, shooting, speed, and moves," he said...