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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Football: Second Team--Tom Yohe, quarterback; Tom McConnell, middle guard: Captain Kevin Dulsky, defensive end; Frank Caprio, cornerback. Honorable Mention--Brian Barringer, split end; Kent Lucas, tight end; John Bartholomew, offensive tackle; Tony Consigli, center...
...worst-case scenario that John Hughes has worked out for tight-wired Neal Page (Steve Martin) in Planes, Trains and Automobiles, those travails are merely the beginning. Heading home from a marketing meeting in New York City and rudely denied his customary first-class air accommodations, he is wedged into a center seat in the tourist section between an old gentleman who snores and a chubby gentleman who chats. The latter is Del Griffith (John Candy), a salesman of shower-curtain rings and not at all Neal's kind of guy. He dresses funny, is too eager to be helpful...
Young cavalry officers training at Fort Riley in the '30s spent eight hours in the saddle most days, riding punishing cross-country courses, practicing dressage, riding tight figure-eight patterns while emptying their .45 pistols at targets. They were up at 5:30 a.m., often with pounding heads. "We were bachelors, and we did a lot of drinking," says Polk, "but with all the riding, we were healthy." Another old Riley hand, Major General Lawrence ("Bud") Schlanser, arrived at the post as a second lieutenant and married Jill Rodney, daughter of Colonel Dorcey Read Rodney, the commandant, "a little bandy...
Recievers: Senior SE Brian Barringer (47 catches) is currently tied for the second-best single-season receiving output by a Harvard receiver. He will need 10 receptions to break Pat McInally's 1973 mark of 56. Tight-end Kent Lucas (17.6 reception average) has picked up the key yardage all year long while Neil Phillips (13.7) has made some impossible catches for Air Yohe's aerial strikes...
Receivers: Who's the Ivies' other best receiving unit? Why, the Yale corps led by Tom Sauba, of course. Sauba leads all Eli receivers with 42 receptions. Seven of tight end Dean Athanasia's 38 catches have led to touchdowns. Split end Bob Shoop, the recipient of Ryan's miraculous catch against the Quakers, has 27 catches and an impressive 16.6 reception average...