Word: stovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game became a duel between Crab-tree's passes (seven caught by End Ron Stover) and White's line plunges. In the third quarter, Oregon moved to the Buckeye 18-yard line, but Halfback Tom Morris missed a field goal. Minutes later, running mainly behind All-American Guard Aurelius Thomas, White bucked the ball to the Oregon 17. Then Reserve Halfback Don Sutherin thrice flexed his kicking leg and booted a field goal. That squeezed out a Buckeye victory...
F.D.R. achieved his greatest college fame in extracurricular activities. "Any chronicle of Roosevelt at Harvard must inevitably bear much outward resemblance to Stover at Yale," Frank Freidel has said, "with its hero ever striving onward and upward from one extracurricular triumph to another...
...varsity's zone defense checked Bowdoin's offense, and held the team's star guard, Brud Stover, to eight points. Stover was aiming for an all-time Bear scoring mark tonight. Forward Tom McDovern and center Bob Smith each scored 13 points to tie for Bowdoin honors...
...Bear threat tonight will be Brud Stover, the 6 ft. 1 in. guard who was instrumental in defeating the Crimson when the two teams last clashed, in 1956. He averaged 22 points last year and is within 24 points of setting an all time total scoring record at Bowdoin. Dick Willey, a 5 ft. 8 in. junior guard, is the Bears' only other returning starter...
...first season without Ford Foundation support (and its first on NBC), Omnibus proved Madison Avenue more wrong than ever. With two-thirds of the show sold (to Aluminium Ltd. and Union Carbide), and the other third bid for, Omnibus kicked off with a slickly attractive white-shoe production of Stover at Yale, a tongue-in-dimpled-cheek musical adaptation by Douglass (Damn Yankees) Wallop of the old Owen Johnson stories. Much of the play lived up to Alistair Cooke's introduction of it as "a gentle thing, both odd and funny." When the boola overflowed with...