PINE BLUFF—I walked for a total of 51:46 from Golden Lion Stadium around the UAPB campus before UAPB's football game against Lane College. ...Last evening, I walked for about forty minutes before the Smackover Buckaroo's 8-6 victory over the Episcopal Collegiate Wildcats. Smackover was the hometown of Clyde "Smackover" Scott. Scott won the silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the 110-meter hurdles. He was given his nickname while a running back for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. We had an old sports copy editor at the paper named Mike Marino, who grew up in Pennsylvania. He said that, as a teenager, he assumed Scott got his nickname as a player prone to smacking over the line of scrimmage. ...By the way, to hell with the football team. It was worth my trip to watch UAPB's Marching Magical Music Machine of the Mid-South. What a grand halftime show.
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