![]() ![]() “Boody was the kind of guy who, if you woke him up in the middle of the night and told him your car had broken down, would get out of bed and walk five miles to help you-nothing was too much trouble for him,” Vernon Whiteside says. He was just like a father to everybody.” His unselfishness was legendary, and not just on the football field (where, because the other halfback, Lyons McCall, a good runner, was a poor blocker, Boody volunteered to do most of the blocking while McCall carried the ball-if the team was behind in the last minutes of a game, however, the players would growl: “Give it to Boody”). ![]() ![]() “You always felt you could go to him with your problems,” says one woman. Caro (Author) 95 ratings Collects books from: The Years of Lyndon Johnson See all formats and editions Hardcover 164.62 Other new and used from 75. “If things were going bad in a game, he’d call a time-out, and gather the team around, and say, ‘Now, look, fellows, we’re here to play football,’ and settle everybody down.” He didn’t settle down only football players. The first volume in Robert Caros The Years of Lyndon Johnson, hailed as the greatest biography of our era, this is the story of the rise to national. Caros The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set: The Path to Power Means of Ascent Master of the Senate The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power Means of Ascent Master of the Senate The Passage of Power Hardcover Deckle Edge, Apby Robert A. ![]() “He was the fatherly type,” a football player says. “But it is not the remembrance of his athletic ability that-fifty years later-makes San Marcos students smile when they remember the stalwart Boody Johnson. ![]()
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