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Education: Graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1901 18th in his class, cadet corps first captain, and an All-Southern Conference tackle...
...least of the postwar player grabbers was Navy, which found it hard to go back to old ways. Virginia Military Academy charged that five of its best players, including Lynn Chewning, 1945 all-Southern Conference fullback, had been swiped by Navy. Moaned V.M.I. Coach Allison ("Pooley") Hubert: "It's rotten . . . they walked off with half my team...
...senior year he was All-Southern tackle, and still has the bodily grace of muscular self-control. He has what baseball people call "a good pair of hands" -large, capable, well-coordinated. He talks with few gestures, but his speech is superb in exactness, his voice even but never monotonous. When he dresses a man down, there is no profanity, no shouting, not even the chill look of traditional military anger. But his ire burns like hell. These personal explosions of his are rarely and consciously utilized tools: he can turn them on & off like a spigot...
...they were minded to, the prospective all-Southern Conference champs could trace their Alma Mater's life back to pre-Harvard days. For even before New England had been settled, the tobacco planters of Virginia tried to establish a college. An Indian massacre wiped out faculty and students though, and that...
...South they are saying in their best johnny-cake, corn whiskey accents, "Hahvuhd can have Peabody. We'll take Ramsey any day." The bad thing about it that "they" might be right, as good as Peabody was, for Ramsey blocks and tackles like fiend and was picked on every All-Southern team in the books last year...