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Northeastern has shown flashes of promise in skating to its 5-4-1 ECAC record, but they have been all too infrequent. At any rate, the player to watch is 25-year-old walk-on freshman goalie Ed Arrington, whose play (3.58 g.a.) has been the big story for the Huskies...
Fordham's hit man down the stretch was Bill Lombardi, who made the team as a walk-on last year and was awarded a basketball scholarship. Lombardi scored all of his eight points in the last seven minutes, bagging a bucket off a rebound to pull the Rams within three with 5:36 showing on the clock...
...letters from all the big schools, but none of them would give me any aid because of my size. They all told me that if I wanted to play football I'd have to be a walk-on," Potysman says...
...made good that promise with George Smiley, who was a walk-on in The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. But these Circus clowns and aerialists will no longer live on promises: in The Honourable Schoolboy they jostle and clamor for the reader's attention. Fieldmen, office workers, a parade of journalists and reprobates (The Honourable Schoolboy finds the two synonymous), half-castes and Orientals give the book the richness of a Victorian novel of manners...
...vehemently opposed him, warning that his "Skytrain" service would hurt the scheduled carriers on the New York-London run and compel them to cut their losses by curtailing flights on less profitable routes elsewhere. Well, surprise. Now that Laker has won permission from the Carter Administration to offer his walk-on shuttle service beginning in late September, his IATA competitors are not only preparing to meet him head-on but suggesting that the fight might help them and the industry as a whole...