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THEY SAID IT
Edited by Barbara La Fontaine
October 03, 1977
?Fred Casoti, Colorado University's assistant athletic director, asked if the football team joins in pregame prayer: "No, we've got so many things to pray for we'd get penalized 15 yards for delaying the start of the game."
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October 03, 1977

They Said It

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?Fred Casoti, Colorado University's assistant athletic director, asked if the football team joins in pregame prayer: "No, we've got so many things to pray for we'd get penalized 15 yards for delaying the start of the game."

?Ted Manly, Virginia's freshman quarterback, after the Cavaliers suffered the second worst defeat in their history, 68-0, at the hands of Texas: "Really, Texas wasn't as good as I thought they'd be."

?Gordon Beard, sportswriter for the Associated Press, on Brooks Robinson: "Brooks never asked anyone to name a candy bar after him. In Baltimore, people name their children after him."

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