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Sixty-four days after pulling off his Crimson shoulder pads for the last time, Harvard quarterback Jimmy Stoeckel received what may be his highest accolade yet Saturday night, unanimously winning the Swede Nelson Award from the Boston Gridiron Club for his superlative senior season at Harvard...
...Swede Nelson Award has gone to some fine people over the years," Restic said, "but I don't think they've ever given it to a finer person than Jimmy Stoeckel...
...third and final attempt to run the race was as tragic as it was tawdry.By Wednesday the Speedway grounds were a littered, swampy mess. The race itself seemed almost anticlimactic. Then, on the 58th lap, Driver Swede Savage's car skidded out of control at 170 m.p.h., ricocheted off two walls and burst into flames. Jumping out of one of the pits to see what had happened, Mechanic Armondo Teran, 22, was struck by a rescue truck speeding the wrong way up the pit road. Savage was listed in critical condition with splintered legs and extensive burns. Teran died...
...example, a beaming little girl of about a year and a half wandered into the Crimson's newsroom and proceeded to disrupt things. She was wearing a button, nearly as big as she was, and the button said "Solidarity with Heroic Viet-namese Freedom Fighters." Gentele, a Swede, would have been proud...
...pushes on in Minnesota while the others stop, seeking the best possible farmland for his family. He cuts his way through miles of forest until he reaches the meadows by the shores of Lake Ki-Chi-Saga. Troell cuts with a compass to four views of the land the Swede has chosen. And after Karl has chopped the bark of a tree to mark his claim, knowing that he has done right by all and enchanted by his prospects, he naps. As the camera hovers inches from his face, he also smiles, with a new jauntimess...