Norman Corner, British footballer died he was , 68.

James Norman Corner, known as Norman Corner, was an English professional footballer who could play as either a centre half or a forward. Active in the Football League between 1964 and 1971, Corner made 160 appearances, scoring 32 goals  died he was , 68.

(16 February 1943 – 19 February 2011)

Early life

Corner was born in the mining village of Horden,^[2] in County Durham, England, on 16 February 1943.^[3] He attended Horden Roman Catholic School where he played centre half and wing half for the football team, and was selected for East Durham Boys.^[3]

Career

Corner played youth football with Horden Colliery Welfare before he signed amateur forms at Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1961.^[2][3] He spent 18 months with Wolves but was restricted to appearances in the Northern Intermediate League teams and returned to Horden Colliery Welfare.^[2][3] In August 1962, he again attracted a league club and he signed for Hull City on professional forms.^[2] Corner's debut for Hull came against Brentford in April 1964 when he scored twice in a 3–1 win at Griffin Park.^[3] However, he played only five first team games, scoring four goals, in five years, during which time Hull turned down an approach from Brian Clough at Hartlepools United,^[4] before Lincoln City signed Corner for a fee just short of £4,000.^[2]
He made his Lincoln debut on 7 October 1967 against Newport County to help his new side win 2–1.^[3] In April 1968, he scored a hat-trick against Bradford (Park Avenue)^[2] with all three goals coming from corners.^[3] His final game with Lincoln came on 18 January 1969 in a 2–2 draw with Brentford.^[3]
The same month, Bradford City paid a fee also close to £4,000 for Corner.^[2] At 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), he was the tallest player to have played for the club at the time.^[2] He made his debut in a Bradford derby against Park Avenue on 25 January 1969^[2] and scored his first goal in the following game which finished in a 5–1 victory against Grimsby Town.^[5] He helped City to 21 games undefeated to earn them promotion in his first season at the club during which period he scored eight goals.^[2][5] In his second season, he tallied another five goals and also scored in a League Cup match against Sunderland.^[5] In his third season, he moved into defence, but still scored in all four of the club's FA Cup games.^[5] However, along with Bruce Bannister he was unable to agree personal terms with the club.^[2] He appealed to an independent tribunal which proved to be unsuccessful but left the club on a free transfer to join Park Avenue in March 1972.^[2] His last game for City was in December 1971, against Aston Villa.^[5]
Corner had passed his coaching exams while with City, and started coaching at Park Avenue.^[3]
In July 1973, he moved to South Shields.^[2] He played one season with South Shields, before he took over as player-manager at Wingate in the Wearside League.^[3] They came runners-up in the league and won a number of cup competitions under his guidance.^[3]
He returned to Horden Colliery and scored their first goal in the Northern League following promotion from the Wearside League.^[3] He remained at the club on the committee.^[3]
He went onto begin his own business and coached in schools.^[2]

Later life and death

After returning to the North-East, Corner lived in Horden, where he served on the committee at his former club Colliery Welfare, and later Peterlee.^[4] He was married to Jean, with whom he had two children Susan and Steven.^[4] Corner died on 19 February 2011, three days after his 68th birthday.^[5] His funeral was held at Horden Catholic Church,^[4] next to the Colliery Welfare's home ground.

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Donald L. Cox, American leader of the Black Panther Party died he was , 74.

Donald Lee Cox , known as Field Marshal DC, was an early member of the leadership of the African American revolutionary leftist organization the Black Panther Party, joining the group in 1967  died he was , 74.. Cox was titled the Field Marshal of the group during the years he actively participated in its leadership, due to his familiarity with and writing about guns.

(April 16, 1936 – February 19, 2011)

Biography

After a rural upbringing in western Missouri, Cox moved to San Francisco in 1953 at age 17. He became interested in political action through following the desegregation and civil rights events of the next several years. Cox joined the Oakland, California-based Black Panthers in 1967 in response to a civilian-shooting-by-police incident in the Hunters Point section of San Francisco a year earlier.^[2] Along with Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale and others, Cox was a member of the "central committee" of the Panthers.^[1]
Cox became a national organizer and spokesperson for the group, which was involved in multiple legal cases and a target of the COINTELPRO project of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.^[3] In January 1970, Cox was invited to speak to several dozen guests of composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia at their penthouse apartment in the wealthy Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan. The gathering was an effort to raise funds for the defense of twenty-one Black Panther members who were charged with conspiracy to bomb buildings and other crimes.^[1][4] Cox was famously photographed along with the Bernsteins for a cover story essay by Tom Wolfe in New York magazine, published in June of 1970 and entitled "Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's".^[4] The article led to the popularization of "radical chic" as a critical term.^[5] Cox, along with the Bernsteins, vehemently dismissed Wolfe's notion that the New York upper class was dabbling in radical politics as a fashion statement at the event, vouching for their sincerity.^[1]
Shortly after the Bernstein fundraiser Cox was accused along with several others of conspiracy to murder a Panther who was an informant in Baltimore named Eugene Anderson. Cox fled the United States to avoid trial, living first in Algeria and later in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France. Cox did not return to the United States, although he married an American from Philadelphia, Barbara Easley. He died in exile in Camps-sur-l'Agly, France in February 2011.^[1]

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Ollie Matson, American Hall of Fame football player (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles), died from complications from dementia he was , 80.

Ollie Genoa Matson II  was an American Olympic medal winning sprinter and professional American football running back who played in the National Football League, in 1952 and from 1954 to 1966 died from complications from dementia he was , 80. . He graduated from George Washington High School in San Francisco in 1948.

(May 1, 1930 – February 19, 2011)

College career

Matson attended the City College of San Francisco prior to transferring to the University of San Francisco. While in school, Matson became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. In 1951, Matson's senior year at USF, he led the nation in rushing yardage and touchdowns en route to leading the Dons to an undefeated season. He was selected as an All-American and finished ninth in Heisman Trophy balloting that year.
Despite its 9-0 record, the 1951 San Francisco team was not invited to a bowl game. It was later reported that the Orange, Sugar and Gator Bowls - all in the American South - did not consider inviting any teams that had black players, and the USF refused to play without its two African-American teammates.^[1]
Drafted #1 by the Chicago Cardinals, he went on to share 1952 Rookie of the Year honors with Hugh McElhenny of the San Francisco 49ers. During his 14-year career, Matson also played for the Los Angeles Rams (traded by the Cardinals for nine Rams players following the 1958 season),^[2] the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles, and he was named to the Pro Bowl six times (1952, 1954 to 1958). When Matson retired in 1966, his 12,799 career all-purpose yards were second only to Jim Brown.^[3] Matson was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972, and into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976.
Matson also won a bronze medal in the 400-meter run and a silver medal as part of the United States 4x400-meter relay team in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland.
Ollie Matson was a member of The Pigskin Club Of Washington, D.C. National Intercollegiate All-American Football Players Honor Roll.

Personal life

He married his wife Mary, whom he met when both were San Francisco teenagers in the mid 1940s, in 1952. He and Mary lived in the same Mid-City Los Angeles home from the time he played for the Los Angeles Rams until his passing. The site is being nominated as the 'Ollie and Mary Matson Residence', a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, as an historic house museum and interpretive center. Museum and Interpretive is Landmarking 2007-2008, being prepared by students of Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Program in Historic Preservation, anticipated listing mid-2008. Matson suffered from Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in his later years, which is a result of numerous hard hits to the head Matson sustained during his time in the NFL.^[4]

Death

Matson died in his Los Angeles home on February 19, 2011 of respiratory failure, surrounded by family.

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Anson Rainey, American academic and author, died from pancreatic cancer he was , 81.

Anson Frank Rainey was Professor Emeritus of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures and Semitic Linguistics at Tel Aviv University died from pancreatic cancer he was , 81.. He authored and edited books and articles on the cultures, languages and geography of the Biblical lands. He is the only scholar to date to have personally read and studied all of the existing Amarna tablets, the legendary administrative letters from the period of Pharaoh Akhenaten's rule during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. 


  (January 11, 1930 – February 19, 2011)

Biography

Early life

Anson Rainey was born in Dallas, Texas in 1930. Upon the death of his father that same year he was left with his maternal grandparents. He entered Brown Military Academy (San Diego, California) from 1943 to 1946. After one semester of study there (as a Cadet Battalion Commander), he served as Assistant Commandant at the Southern California Military Academy (Long Beach, California; Spring Semester, 1947), before transferring to John Brown University (Siloam Springs, Arkansas).^{[citation needed]}

Education

From 1948-49 he worked as Assistant Commandant at the Brown Military Academy of the Ozarks, in Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, while attending university. He took the B.A. degree there in Religious Education in August 1949. From 1949-51, he worked as a social worker for the County Welfare Department, San Bernardino, California. He went on to enroll in the California Baptist Theological Seminary (Covina, California), where he took three degrees: M.A. in Old Testament (May 1953); B.D. in Biblical Theology (May 1954); M.Th. in Old Testament (May 1955).^{[citation needed]}
From September 1953 until May 1954, he was a teaching fellow in Hebrew, Old Testament and New Testament Introduction. In 1954 he was appointed Assistant Professor and taught for two more years. From 1955–56, he studied at the University of California, Los Angeles and completed the B.A. with Honors in August 1956. In 1957, he began graduate study at Brandeis University, where he earned an M.A. in June 1959. He spent a third year of residence (1959–60), studying for his Ph.D He came to Israel in June 1960, as the sole American recipient of the Government of Israel Award. From 1960-61, he studied at the Hebrew University, first in an intensive Hebrew course and then in Archaeology and in the Egyptian, Coptic and Phoenician languages (all in Hebrew). At the same time, he completed the basic research for his doctoral dissertation. In 1961, he returned to Brandeis as a research assistant. Upon completion of his dissertation on the Social Structure of Ugarit, he was awarded his Ph.D. in June 1962.^{[citation needed]}
However, his main activity for the academic year, 1962–63, was research and study under a grant from the Warburg Fund at the Hebrew University. This award was renewed for 1963-64, and the book that resulted was translated into Hebrew and published by the Bialik Institute (August 1967). It was a revision of the earlier dissertation, expanded to include new source material that had subsequently become available. He began teaching Ugaritic and Akkadian at the Tel Aviv University. From 1965–66, he served as acting chairman of the Ancient Near Eastern Studies Department. In 1966, his status was changed to Lecturer in Semitic Languages. A year later he was appointed Senior Lecturer. In 1970 he was elevated to Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures. The department was reorganized under the title, Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, in which he served as coordinator for Mesopotamian Studies until October 1975. A new department of Semitic Linguistics was also organized, and from 1971-72 he was its acting chairman. He was promoted to the rank of Full Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Cultures and Semitic Linguistics effective July 1, 1981.^{[citation needed]}

Scholarship

Rainey served on the editorial boards of Israel Oriental Studies, an annual, and of Tel Aviv, a quarterly, both publications of Tel Aviv University. He continued his connection with the American Institute of Holy Land Studies (now the Jerusalem University College), teaching Historical Geography and for six years, from 1964 to 1969, conducting their intensive program of geographical field trips. During the 1960s and 1970s He pursued additional studies at the Hebrew University in Akkadian, Sumerian and Egyptian. He took a sabbatical leave in 1970-71, during which time he deemed it advisable to remain in Jerusalem to study. For a second sabbatical, he was awarded a grant by the American Council of Learned Societies. On the basis of this award he was able to spend 1976-77 as an Honorary Research Fellow at Harvard University. Grants from the Research for Peace Project of the Tel Aviv University made possible three visits to the Cairo Museum from 1980-82 and the el-‘Amârna Tablets in the Museum were all collated.^{[citation needed]}
From 1982-85 he began teaching part-time at Bar Ilan University in the Department of Eretz-Israel Studies. During a third sabbatical in 1983-84, he was Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. During a fourth sabbatical in 1988-89, he was again Visiting Research Scholar at the University. During a fifth sabbatical for 1995-96, he was again Visiting Research Scholar at the University where he also taught a seminar in Northwest Semitic inscriptions. From 1996 until September 30, 1998, he continued to teach as Full Professor at Tel Aviv University. On October 1, 1998 he became Emeritus Professor there but taught a course in Historical Geography during the academic years 1998-99, 1999–2000 and 2000-2001.
He spent July 1999 in Jordan studying historical geography and archaeology. In August and September of 1999 he spent the sabbatical time working at the British Museum collating el-‘Amârna tablets. 66 texts were read and many substantial corrections were discovered. Four days were spent at the Vorderasiatische Museum in Berlin where eleven texts were collated, some with new readings and corrections. Further collations were made at the Metropolitan Museum of New York in November 1999, and at the British Museum and at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in January and February of 2000, bringing the total of collated texts up to about 100. A third visit to the United Kingdom in April 2001 was made to complete the collation of texts in the British Museum and also those in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Fall 2001 was spent at the University of California, Los Angeles, where consultation began with the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative in digitizing the Amarna tablets in the Berlin Museum. During the Spring 2002 semester he was invited to teach as a visiting professor of Historical Geography and Ancient Hebrew at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea. In August and September 2002 he was a visiting research scholar at the University of Melbourne, Australia.^{[citation needed]}
From 2002-07 he taught as adjunct professor at Bar Ilan University and Orot College and at the Jerusalem University College. From 2003-04 he spent ten months collating the el-‘Amârna tablets at the Vorderasiatische Museum in Berlin and at other venues in Europe. A completely new edition of the tablets is envisioned along with photographic and internet recording. The edition of the texts and the notes derived from collations will be placed on the internet. During the 53th Rencontre of the International Association of Assyriologists in Moscow in July 2007, he collated the last three el-‘Amârna tablets (at the Pushkin Museum).^{[citation needed]}

Death

Anson Rainey died, aged 81, from pancreatic cancer in Tel Hashomer, Israel.

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Max Wilk, American playwright, screenwriter and author died he was , 90.

Max Wilk was an American playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction book. Formerly a resident of Ridgefield, Connecticut, he moved to Westport, Connecticut, where lived until his death February 19, 2011, at age 90. Max Wilk was the best story writer of his time and was known as "the living legend".
In the 1960s, he wrote the novelization of The Beatles' cartoon Yellow Submarine. His fiction includes Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River; the movie version starred Jerry Lewis and shifted the locale from "Green Haven" (based on Ridgefield) to London, England.

(July 3, 1920 – February 19, 2011)

 Books

(in reverse chronological order)

• The Sound of Music: The Making of Rodger and Hammerstein's Classic Musical, Routledge (2006), ISBN 0-415-97934-X
• OK! The Story Of Oklahoma!: A Celebration of America's Most Beloved Musical, 292 pages, Applause Books; (2002) ISBN 1-55783-555-1
• Schmucks with Underwoods: Conversations with America's Classic Screenwriters,, 338 pages, Applause Books (2004), ISBN 1-55783-508-X
• The Golden Age of Television: Notes from the Survivors, 274 pages, Delacorte Press (1976) ISBN 0-440-02950-3(Paperback: Truck Press; 3rd edition, 1999, ISBN 0-916562-49-2)
• Overture and Finale: Rodgers & Hammerstein and the Creation of Their Two Greatest Hits (Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music) Paperback: 192 pages, Watson-Guptill Publications (April 1999) ISBN 0-8230-8820-0
• American Treasure Hunt: The Legacy of Israel Sack co-author, Harold Sack, 270 pages, Little Brown & Co (November 1986), ISBN 0-316-76593-7
• Mr. Williams and Miss Wood: A two-character play, 42 pages, Dramatists Playservice (1990), ASIN: B0006EYAJW (Note: NOT an ISBN)
• A Tough ACT to Follow, co-author, Jim Connor, 346 pages, Norton (January 1986) ISBN 0-393-02219-6(paperback, PaperJacks (1988) ISBN 0-7701-0736-2)
• And Did You Once See Sydney Plain?: A Random Memoir of S.J. Perelman, 83 pages, Norton (1986), ISBN 0-393-02343-5
• Get Out and Get Under,317 pages, Norton (1981), ISBN 0-393-01425-8
• The Moving Picture Boys, 287 pages, Norton (1978), ISBN 0-393-08814-6
• Every day's a matinee: Memoirs scribbled on a dressing room door, 288 pages,

Norton (1975) ISBN 0-393-07491-9

• They're Playing Our Song: The Truth Behind the Words and Music of Three Generations 295 pages, Atheneum (1973), ISBN 0-689-10554-1
• Memory lane, 1890 to 1925;: Ragtime, jazz, foxtrot and other popular music and music covers, 88 pages, Studioart (1973), ISBN 0-902063-13-8
• The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood: From the Squaw Man to the Hatchet Man, (compiler) Scribner (1971) ISBN 0-689-10370-0
• The Beard, a novel, Simon and Schuster, (1965) LCCN 65-23246
• Cloud Seven,: A comedy, 84 pages, Dramatists Play Service, (1958) ASIN: B0007E1WQK (Note: NOT an ISBN)
• Yellow Submarine novelization (1960s)
• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

Broadway plays

According to the "Internet Broadway DataBase":^[3]

• A Musical Jubilee (Musical, Revue) ran November 13, 1975-February 1, 1976
• Cloud 7 (Comedy) ran February 14, 1958-February 22, 1958
• Small Wonder (Musical, Revue) book by Wilk, ran September 15, 1948-January 8, 1949

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Yuan Xuefen, Chinese Yueju opera actress died she was , 88

Yuan Xuefen  was a noted performer in the Yueju opera genre of Chinese opera. She has been called "arguably the most important actress in the recent history of Yueju [Shaoxing] opera"died she was , 88.

(26 March 1922 – 19 February 2011)

 Biography

Yuan is most known for playing the title role in the 1946 production of Sister Xianglin, an adaptation of a work by Lu Xun.^[2] Before beginning work on the adaptation of the work, she personally visited the home of Xu Guangping and Zhou Haiying, Lu Xun's wife and son, and asked their permission. According to Zhou, his mother quickly granted the request.^[3] Yuan is credited with leading the reform of Yueju opera staging during the 1940s. Changes included the extensive use of lighting and scenery, and a new, soft style of costuming.^[4] In 1964, the film Stage Sisters, based on Yuan's life, was released. During the Cultural Revolution, Yuan was severely criticized as a way of attacking Premier Zhou Enlai, who supported the film.[
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Spook Jacobs, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates) died he was , 85.

Forrest Vandergrift "Spook" Jacobs  was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1954 through 1956 for the Philadelphia Athletics (1954), Kansas City Athletics (1955-'56), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1956). Listed at 5'9", 155 lb., he batted and threw right handed.

(November 4, 1925 – February 18, 2011)

Baseball career

Born Forrest Vandergrift Jacobs in Cheswold, Delaware, he graduated from Salem High School, Salem, New Jersey in 1943. Immediately after graduation, Jacobs enlisted in the United States Army where he served as a Sergeant during World War II. Following his military discharge, he played professional baseball for 17 seasons, three of them in the majors, while playing for several minor league clubs and in Cuba and Panama winter leagues.^[1]
Jacobs posted a .247 average and a .971 fielding percentage in his major league career, stealing 22 bases, 17 of them in 1954.^[2] His build reminded some of Nellie Fox.^[3]
On April 13, 1954, Jacobs became one of only three players in major league history to go 4-for-4 in his major league debut, the others being Delino DeShields and Willie McCovey.^[2] Jacobs was a pesky hitter who reached base by slapping balls through the infield, and gained his ghostly nickname from his tendency to dump hits just over the heads of opposing infielders.^[4] A baseball writer gave Jacobs the nickname in 1947 when he was playing with Johnstown, Pennsylvania, club, the Johnnies, of the Middle Atlantic League.^[5] Casey Stengel once said of him, "He's always been in our hair."^[3]
Jacobs was a farmhand of the Brooklyn Dodgers for eight years before becoming the property of the Philadelphia Athletics. The Dodgers had vast minor league holdings in 1954, and loaded a number of their prospects on the roster of a single club. Under the rules of the time, only one selected player could be lost to a team per draft period. Jacobs was never called up to the Dodgers' top farm club, the Montreal Royals, because of their surplus of players. On one occasion, he was passed over when Brooklyn picked Junior Gilliam. Clyde Sukeforth hinted that the Pittsburgh Pirates might have an interest in drafting Jacobs, but the team chose Danny Lynch instead. Philadelphia manager Eddie Joost was particularly impressed by Jacobs' fielding and his hit and run capability.^[6]
On April 20, 1954, Jacobs' fourth inning triple, followed by an error on a fly ball hit by Vic Power, gave Philadelphia a 5-0 lead over the Washington Senators.^[7] On May 3, 1954, Chicago White Sox right-hander, Sandy Consuegra, retired the first 19 Athletics' hitters before Jacobs doubled in the seventh inning with one man out. Consuegra retired the next five hitters prior to encountering trouble in the ninth. Then Jacobs bunted successfully, and Consuegra threw wildly into right field, allowing two runs to score. Chicago beat Philadelphia 14-3 at Connie Mack Stadium, with Jacobs collecting the only two hits for the losers.^[8]
Jacobs was involved in a fracas while playing for the Columbus Jets in July 1955. Lou Limmer of the Toronto Maple Leafs slid into him at second base, knocking Jacobs head over heels. Jacobs was thrown out of the International League game in the fourth inning for throwing a punch in retaliation.^[9] A sore arm led to his demotion to Columbus. His arm recovered and Jacobs was selected as the outstanding International League second baseman in 1955, batting .316.^[3]
During 1956 spring training, Jacobs competed with Jim Finigan for the starting second baseman job for the Kansas City Athletics. Finigan was considered a more powerful hitter, but Jacobs was a faster player.^[3] He was optioned to the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League by the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 4, 1956.^[10] Jacobs was among 14 players recalled by the Pirates in September 1956.^[11]
Jacobs was injured when he collided with Hollywood shortstop, Dick Smith, during a game in the Pacific Coast League. Both players were chasing a fly ball in a game against the San Diego Padres (April 11, 1957), and Jacobs was thought to have suffered a hairline skull fracture after being carried from the field on a stretcher.^[12][13] He recovered and returned to the Stars' lineup on May 7.^[14]
Tommy Lasorda and Jacobs were teammates on the 1956 Athletics. While pitching for the Los Angeles Angels (PCL), Lasorda deliberately hit Jacobs in the fifth inning of an August 1957 game. The knockdown came after relief pitcher, Fred Waters, hit a 400-foot home run which broke a 4-4 tie. Jacobs charged Lasorda and then went after his rival second baseman, Sparky Anderson. Hollywood went on to score seven runs in the fifth inning to gain an 11-4 win at Gilmore Field.

Later life

After his baseball career ended, Jacobs and his wife Bobbie settled in Milford, Delaware, where they owned and operated the Milford Bus Center, then Mr. Donut/Donut Connection, over a span of 42 years before retiring.^[1][15]
The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame inducted Jacobs in 1991. He also became a member of six Sports Hall of Fames - Delaware Baseball, Columbus Ohio, Cuban Baseball, Eastern Shore, Delaware, South Jersey and Salem County, New Jersey.^[1]
One of his proudest achievements was when his personal stamp collection was featured in 2008 at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.^[1]
Jacobs died at the Delaware Hospice Center in Milford, Delaware, on February 18, 2011, at the age of 85.^[1]

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