Word: upness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Moscow last spring, the Nixon-tour reporters learned to their dismay that Russia's limited communications system could not handle the emergency load. Cable copy took ten hours or more to reach the U.S. To avoid such delays, the wire services and the big morning papers tied up...
Time and again, Syracuse's winged-T play seemed to be going to the left when Negro Sophomore Halfback Ernie Davis suddenly flashed back to take the ball and smash through the right side of the West Virginia line in a scissor-like reverse. Twice, the sturdy (6 ft...
Throughout the game. a character looking like an aging water boy strode up and down before the Syracuse bench. He wore a dark blue school shirt and a baseball cap pulled low over his close-cropped grey hair, and he barely came to some of the players' shoulders. But...
Even so, Coach Schwartzwalder took his lumps until the early '50s, when independent Syracuse (enrollment: 7,000) decided to go big time. Counting on the New York Thruway to bring new fans to the stadium, Syracuse gave Schwartzwalder authority and money to recruit some shock troops ("If we can...
Before a game, Schwartzwalder gives his team a mild tongue-lashing as a stimulant but avoids oldtime histrionics. "If Knute Rockne came into my locker room and gave one of his fight talks, the kids would laugh him right out of the place," he says. "You can't fool...