Word: connor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McEvilly wasted no time. He lofted a 54-yd. scoring pass to Kevin O'Connor, on the first play from scrimmage. The fleet-footed O'Connor, who caught six passes for 159 yards and two TDs, took the ball at the Harvard 14 and sneaked into the endzone untouched...
UMass finished the four-play, 60-yd. touchdown drive in just 68 seconds as O'Connor took a McEvilly pass at the Harvard eight, eluded Trusty and stumbled into the endzone...
...game was a good one overall for Harvard, as the Crimson finished strong after a very weak start. When the game opened it looked like Harvard might be facing a depressing day. On Harvard's first possession, following a 4-yd. Connor's blast, St. John faded back to try his first pass as the starting varsity quarterback. He completed the toss, thrown with precision into the waiting arms of Columbia's Mike Brown, who returned the ball to the Harvard...
...diplomat. He was a conciliator, a charmer, one who could quietly negotiate a compromise between even the angriest adversaries. While shouting demonstrators surrounded the Birmingham jail where Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned during a civil rights protest, Young was the ambassador who dealt with Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor and won a promise to end segregation of facilities at large downtown stores...
...recent hirings come six months after the disputed firing of two police officers. Richard D. O'Connor was fired in December for allegedly breaking into a car at the Everett St. garage. Earlier this month, a Massachusetts Superior Court jury failed to return a verdict, subjecting the case to retrial later this year...