Word: trucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshmen: l.e., Van Kessler; l.t., Kimmel; l.g., Carey; c., Robinson; r.g., Casey; r.t., Flather; r.e., Maier; q.b., Simmons; l.h., Trucker; r.h., Boies; f.b., Langdon...
Backfield action was limited to running practice and starts. Earl Trucker, all-Minneapolis back, Dick Clasby, Bill Frate, and Warren O'Donnell, all with outstanding prep-school records, are candidates for starting positions. O'Donnell is a brother of Cleo and Ken, former Crimson captains...
...heavy thunderstorms hit Chicago in the late afternoon. The drenching rain flooded the paved depression where State Street dips under a bridge out on the sprawling South Side. It forced a trucker named Mel Wilson to drive slowly as he hauled 8,000 gallons of gasoline into the city in a heavy truck & trailer rig. It kept Loop crowds huddled in doorways until just before Chicago Transit Authority streetcar 7078 came by. Then the rain ended, and No. 7078-one of a speedy new type which Chicagoans call "Green" Hornets"-was quickly jammed...
...switch at almost 30 m.p.h., swerved across the street to the left, and crashed into .the big grey tanks behind Trucker Wilson's cab. They ripped open like cardboard. Gasoline cascaded out, and caught fire almost instantly with a soft, terrible, thudding sound...
...through broken windows, ran off white and bleeding, some with their hair and clothes on fire. One man pulled red-hot metal strips out of a side window with his bare hands, tumbled out crying in agony. But in three minutes the whole car was enveloped in fire; the trucker was dead in his cab and the screaming had stopped...