Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico City games showed the U.S. with 45 gold, 28 silver and 34 bronze for a total of 107, compared with Russia's 29 gold, 32 silver, 30 bronze and a total of 91. Track and field was an utter debacle for the Russians, who managed to win only three events while the U.S. was winning 15. Every bit as embarrassing was the performance of the Soviet basketball team, which had been favored to capture the gold medal and wound up instead with the bronze, finishing behind the U.S. and Yugoslavia. The Russian players were "giants," reported Trud...
...team in pro football was better than the Giants when they played the high-riding Dallas Cowboys. With a display of offensive wizardry and defensive ferocity, they scored an upset 27-21 victory over a squad that has been picked by many experts to win the N.F.L. championship. All afternoon the Giants belted the Cowboys with abandon. And as usual, the stars of the show were Quarterback Fran Tarkenton and Split End Homer Jones-the most explosive passing combination in the game today...
...more dissimilar types would be hard to imagine. Tarkenton is a devout perfectionist who views winning as an extension of the Christian ethic. "A team must have soul," he told Asinof. "It must be rooted in love for each other. There's just no other way to play football and win...
...sincere, all very calculated. What makes the diary interesting is that the author knows exactly what is being done to him, chooses it, and even in some twisted way enjoys it. He describes Lombardi as primarily a child psychologist; but perhaps athletes have to become as little children to win championships. For instance, one of the Packers, age 33, finds himself concealing an ice-cream cone behind his back. Excellent attitude. The emotional regression will stand him in good stead on Sunday. Scared of Daddy, he is all the more likely to terrorize the rest of the block...
Against Army early in the season, Harvard had run its flying wedge over the goal line from the two, killing the famous Army captain Gene Byrne, who was posthumously listed on Walter Camp's All-American team of 1909. The wedge play did win the game 9-0 for the Crimson, however...