Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diamond Over Gridiron. Son of a Wyncote, Pa., tailor, Jackson, now 23, starred in both football and baseball in high school and won a scholarship to Arizona State, perhaps the only college in the country that prizes the diamond over the gridiron. In his sophomore year he hit 15 home runs and batted .327. He was drafted by the A's and signed for an estimated...
Football is another favorite. At a stadium or in front of a television set, the President follows gridiron action closely, often memorizing key plays. Says White House Aide Bud Wilkinson, former University of Oklahoma football coach: "He can recall what happened in the third quarter of a game he saw twelve years ago-and even remember the name of the guy who made the play." When the Redskins kick off in the fall, Nixon is sure to be at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium rooting them on from the owners...
Kalinoski, returned to the gridiron as a sophomore and succeeded in tearing a knee cartilage in the fourth day of practice. That accident ended his football career, but playing with his knee, taped, he won four games that spring on the J.V. nine. "He was throwing as well as the varsity staff," Ignacio recalled...
About the only reason to see Kenner is to watch Jim Brown. The rest of the film is so awful that it makes an average TV series look like Citizen Kane. Brown, who has taken more punishment from his movie roles than he ever did on the gridiron, continues to give promise of becoming a commanding screen personality. All he seems to need is practice, and that is just about all that Kenner gives...
...Yale Daily News has decided to try again. After years of disappointment on the gridiron and baseball diamond in competition with the CRIMSON, the News has accepted the CRIMSON's challenge to a showdown in this spring's Boston Marathon, April...