Word: templeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Death was only seconds away. Riding nose to tail pipe, the tight-packed cars skittered around two turns and scrapped all the way down the backstretch. "Nobody was giving anybody anything," said Driver Shorty Templeman. On the very next turn, Ed Elisian's John Zink Special slammed into the pole car and spun out of control; 13 other cars piled up behind him in the worst traffic mess in Brickyard history. "I just went into the turn too hard," said Elisian later. "The brakes locked on me, and I went onto the grass. There wasn't much...