Word: team
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, matched against the speed of the Cardinals, the Giants' rookie-studded punting team gave up two touchdowns on long runbacks of kicks. But on the line of scrimmage, the Giants allowed only 96 yards by rushing, none by passing, on one series of downs spilled Cardinal backs for losses of nine, thirteen and six yards. Final score: Giants 30, Cardinals 20. The victory gave the Giants an undisputed lead in the Eastern conference despite a ramshackle offense that stands an abysmal ninth in scoring in the 12-team N.F.L...
...specter of the mines and a sooty lifetime behind a No. 3 shovel hung over all the boys in the coal country. Sam decided early that he was going to finish high school, no matter what, and there he found football. When Sam made the Class-B all-state team as a 200-lb. tackle for Farmington High School, Coach Art ("Pappy") Lewis of West Virginia University began dropping by to watch him play. "He was hunting all over the field for people to knock down even then," says Lewis. With a full scholarship to West Virginia, Huff majored...
Nonetheless, nearly all the Amherst-bred teachers voiced enthusiasm for their jobs. Reason: "A tremor of excitement coming from the secondary schools." With curriculums in ferment across the country, "notes of boyish idealism" were not uncommon among men in their 505. They forecast exciting opportunities in TV courses, team teaching, counseling. They urged Amherst students to enter a profession "on the way up," suggested that Amherst could thereby help "deflate the grey-flannel success myth" prevalent at "provincial" Ivy League colleges. One prep-school teacher asked: "What other job would pay me to play squash every afternoon? In what other...
...freshman football team produced several individual standouts this season but was never able to function as a well-balanced unit for any length. Even so, Henry Lamar's eleven was able to finish with a respectable 3-3 record...
Although taking the field in its opener after less than a week of practice, the team whipped Tufts easily, 33 to 6. In its next game the freshmen were clearly outclassed by Boston College and showed that it needed more unity in order to avoid similar humiliations. Against B.C. quarterbacks Charlie Kinney and Terry Bartolet proved to be talented passers although they were quickly rushed on every attempt. The playing of a few individuals was the only bright spot that afternoon and was a sign of things to come for the 1959 freshman...