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Baker can be bitter: "The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heroes and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand." Baker can be elegiac, as when he raises the tragic ghost of Abe Lincoln, who says, "A man eventually likes to see the record on himself completed and know that everything is fixed and that his life is in order. I groan every time an archivist discovers another hitherto lost Brady portrait...
Lutheran Seminary Gettysburg...
...Post opponents do not have to be told. To be sure, the Ithaca Bombers, Gettysburg Bullets and Kings Point Mariners are not the Minnesota Vikings, but Wichard's passing average of 228 yds. a game this season is impressive in any league. Ending the regular season with an 8-2 record, Wichard & Co. next week take on the Delaware Blue Hens, the top running team among small colleges, in the Boardwalk Bowl in Atlantic City...
There is a rhetorical summation in the film, similar to that in High School (actually, the entire film follows from the previous work). Awarded the "American Spirit of Honor" award, a private named Marshall traces the concept from Valley Forge to Gettysburg to San Juan Hill to France to World...
...budget cuts and dwindling student support at the University of Buffalo. Yet, other schools are cutting the budget and losing fans, and the game goes on. Buffalo's big problem was its schedule. For several years in the early '60's the Bulls ran through the local competition (Gettysburg, Bucknell, Villanova, B.U.), so the administration began scheduling two opening games with nationally recognized teams (North Carolina State, Toledo, Ohio University). Unfortunately, the pattern became set for the Bulls to open with two losses by scores of 7-36 followed by lopsided wins over the likes of Gettysburgh...