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...year, there was little doubt that Northeastern was worse-until the kick-off. The Crimson offense ran true to Woody Hayes's maxim "three yards in a cloud of dust," but it forgot the three yards. After ten minutes, it looked like our long gainer this season was a fake punt. When we ran an end sweep, people thought Blankenship was shifting over to lone...
...then came Rod Foster, a second-string sophomore quarterback from Dallas, who, as a freshman, couldn't throw a lateral that didn't wobble. On his second play from scrimmage, he started to show his hand. It was a simple fake hand-off in the backfield, hardly worth noting except that in other years it would have been called a broken play. Then a pass for a first down. And another pass-on first down! You look to the sidelines to see if Yovicsin has crawled out from under the bench, and there he is standing resolutely next...
...bullets, and made a lot of cocky statements to the press after the game. he completed nine of 16 passes for 120 yards, ran for 78 yards on seven carries, punted for a 36-yard average, scored one touchdown, set up another, and ran for 20 yards on a fake pnt when his roommate screamed, "Daylight!" from the sidelines...
People tend to believe what they want -or need-to believe. A recent Chicago Daily News and Sun-Times survey found, for example, 17% of those interviewed in Charlotte, N.C., convinced that the Apollo 11 moon landing a year ago was only a Hollywood fake. On quite another level, many Americans will not countenance the thought that U.S. soldiers could possibly have massacred Vietnamese civilians...
Nowadays, trapping is on the wane, a victim of the fake fur, depressed pelt prices, new roads and population growth. Such is the lure of the Alaskan wilderness, though, that perhaps 110 professional trappers are still at large. TIME's San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum visited one of them, Missouri-born Joe Delia, 40, a tall, rugged woodsman with hard, spatulate fingers, a laughing face and an abiding love for the outdoors. Birnbaum's report...