Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golden Helmet Award-winner as New England's Division One Player of the year at season's end, McDermott's final year of football at Harvard saw no pomp, no hardware, but no loss of self-respect, as the tight end played steady and hard and finished tied for fourth place on the all-time Crimson receiving parade...
...quick as a rabbit, Polillio can do it all--run back kicks, and run plays both inside and out--but he excels at pass-catching out of the backfield. Three serious head injuries the last two years have made it necessary for him to wear a new, specially padded helmet. Ralph's explosive, and can blow a game open...
Beneath that obdurate, aluminum exterior beat two 12-volt automobile batteries, 15 electric motors, 35 relays and hundreds of solid-state integrated circuits. Arok has a motorcycle helmet for a skull, a rubber Frankenstein mask for a face, clothes-dryer exhaust hoses for arms, rubber gloves for hands and a firm, manly handshake. He is remote-controlled by FM radio signals (there is a microphone in his control panel and a speaker in his head). Skora, in fact, had to apply for an FCC license to ensure that commands to Arok would not be competing with Led Zeppelin...
...other programs, the result of brain research and studies of perception, seem straight out of Buck Rogers. In one, the Advanced Research Projects Agency is working to link fighter pilots directly to computers. As the pilot dons his helmet, fine needles will project into his scalp and enable him to shoot a rocket merely by thinking the command to fire. Another project, developed at Fort Benning, Ga., allows a commander to send silent coded orders to troops in the field-electronic blips are transmitted through electrodes attached to the upper arms or abdomens of each soldier. So far, Watson reports...
...three-year football starter, McDermott won the Golden Helmet Award as New England's top college player in 1975, his junior year. During that season, McDermott caught three touchdown passes to lead Harvard over Dartmouth, and also caught a fourthdown pass against Yale to set up the field goal that gave Harvard the Ivy League championship...