Word: bednarik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia and Cleveland, club owners vied for the privilege of trying to sign such top 1948 college stars as Nevada's champion passer, Stan Heath, Southern Methodist's snake-hipped quarterback, Doak Walker (who still has another year of college play), Pennsylvania's burly center, Chuck Bednarik. That eliminated bidding between teams in each league but not between leagues. Nobody knew how much the traffic would bear. The Brooklyn Dodgers had signed Columbia's fullback, Lou Kusserow, but it was a fair bet that the Dodgers might not have a team next year for Kusserow...
...pianist and short-order cook who never played football in high school. Extremely fast for his weight, Leo was the star of the line that held Michigan's great offense to 22 yards net gain by rushing. The other lineman was Penn's 220-lb. Center Chuck Bednarik, alias The Clutch, a bear for handing out punishment...
Doak Walker, Charlie Justice, Charlie Bednarik, and Barney Poole are some of the nationally known players who were put on the first team...
...only unanimous choice was Charles Bednarik, 23-year-old, 220-pound center for Pennsylvania. Richard Clark, 19-year-old tackle for Cornell, was the youngest player and only sophomore on the first team...
...Line. Local pressagents and sports editors find it easier to put across a lineman than a backfield star: there is no easy way to measure a tackle's talents or accomplishments statistically. And who can say whether Pennsylvania's 220-lb. Charles Bednarik is a better center than Kentucky's Jay Rhodemyre? The most celebrated tackles were Notre Dame's George Connor and Ziggy Czarobski, Georgia Tech's Bob Davis. Davis' team was upset last week by Alabama, 14 to 7, but he was still a hero in Atlanta...