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...Buffalo Bill Cornerback Robert James, out for the season with a knee injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pros in Traction | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Another page has entered the annals of Harvard's potential pro football prospects as Crimson cornerback Mike Page announced yesterday that he has signed with the Dallas Cowboys as a free agent...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Cowboys Lasso Page as Free Agent | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...athletes also follow more exotic pursuits. Earlie Thomas, a cornerback for the New York Jets, spends his off seasons chasing bugs as he works toward a master's in entomology at Colorado State. The subject of his thesis: "The Different Effects of Cultural Methods on Bathyplectes Curculionis and Its Host," a study of one species of parasite wasp. "I've always been curious about insects," Thomas says. "You could spend one full year on one insect and still not know all there is to know about it." Thomas' fascination has been an abiding one; he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Double Life of Egghead Jocks | 12/30/1974 | See Source »

...gauzy, dream-like centerfold, is a fairly good interview with Cuban premier Fidel Castro, conducted last July by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, McGovern's presidential campaign manager and press secretary, respectively. The article opens up with a ridiculous description of Castro as having "the build of a cornerback, or maybe an Ivy League tackle," and proceeds to detail his diet, smoking habits, and insane driving abilities, concluding with Castro remarking on Peter Benchley's novel, Jaws. All of this seems kind of a superficial approach to interviewing a revolutionary leader, but then maybe Castro wasn't aware...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Christmas Shopping | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...yard line, and Dartmouth had 11 seconds to move 95 yards. A first pass attempt failed. Then Brait lofted a beautiful pass to midfield, where Dartmouth's fleet Tom Fleming sped out of nowhere. It seemed as though he would take the ball and go all the way, when cornerback Joe Sciolla leaped at the ball, and deflected it with a finger...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper and Andrew P. Quigley jr., S | Title: Harvard, at Last, Defeats Dartmouth | 10/29/1974 | See Source »

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