Word: all-southern
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William and Mary rolled into South Station last night with the best team it's fielded in its long history, and with visions of all-Southern Conference championship. That's a tough kind of team for a slowly-rising Harvard eleven to have to meet just on its weary way up from collardom...
They have the perfect man to head up that kind of attack in Stud Johnson, the galloping pillbox who wound up last year All-Southern Conference. "A player without a weakness," as his coach, Voyles calls him, Johnson is a 210 pounder who runs through, over, or around defense players, and is fast enough to out-distance most of them. His placekicks beat both Dartmouth and Navy...
...through the Army's best finishing schools, from the War College down, had seen plenty of service with troops and acquitted himself with the cold efficiency that George Marshall likes. Like Marshall he is no West Pointer but a V. M. I. graduate. The legend of Cadet Marshall, All-Southern tackle, was ten years old when Brother Rat Gerow got his diploma...
...very lucky in the man who happened to boss its Army A.D. 1940. A stern disciplinarian but no martinet, the Army's Chief of Staff has been a soldier's soldier since the day he left V. M. I. a senior cadet captain and all-Southern tackle. Honor graduate of the old Infantry-Cavalry School in 1907, he showed his administrative stuff as a student in the Staff School, stayed on at Leavenworth as an instructor for three years. General Bell, mightily impressed at the ease with which young Marshall tossed off astute, clearly written orders to cover...
...begin with, Tennessee has had winning football teams, studded with All-America and All-Southern players, bedecked with the scalps of the best teams in the country, so long under Neyland that it is rumored that the football extras of the Knoxville newspapers are made up before the games-leaving only the space for the score to be filled in when the results of the slaughter come over the wire. (Egad! And slight pause to cool...