The Eighty Yard Run: Difference between revisions

27: Joe tells of the first great bullfighter to admit fear, 'El Gallo' (a nickname) Rafael G&oacute;mez y Ortega. <ref> The brief article in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_G%C3%B3mez_Ortega , says that it needs additional citations for verification. It is so much like Joe's account I don't trust it. An Internet search turned up https://elsitiodeconcha.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/ahora-que-viene-la-feria-taurina-de-san-isidro/ which has a brief description of him; 2 other links copy this (I don't know which is the original.) Joe's account is consistent with this article; I suspect they didn't get anything from Joe. If someone knows more about bullfighting or an expert to consult I'd love to hear about it. In his next show, <i>[[Arena]]</i>, he mentions waiting for a book about another bullfighter.  </ref>

31:30: Joe recurs to his 80-yard run; he's off to the University of Iowa for grad school at the Program in Creative Writing (nicknamed Iowa Writers' Workshop).<ref> I e-mailed the workshop; they only keep records of alumni; Joe didn't graduate.</ref> He says the director when he was there was Paul Engle. Engle was the second director of the program, the one who promoted it to fame. He left this post in 1965. Joe says Engle dubbed Iowa City 'the Athens of the Midwest'. <ref> I can't find this citation, though others have made it and credited Engle for having made it that. Just about every Midwest town with a large university (e.g., Ann Arbor, Columbia MO, Madison WI) has claimed this title. I've been: it's okay; haven't been to Athens - hope it's better.</ref>   

33:20: Joe says Iowans love football. <ref>This wasn't the case when I lived there, but their teams were weaker then.</ref> He says their team was rated #1. The last year this happened was 1960, when Joe was 22. Joe says that Forest Evashevski was the coach; 1960 was his last year as coach. (He went on to become the athletic director until 1970.)