Word: blockers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pete Shears, starting left halfback has been clipping enemy tacklers all season. Shears, probably the most surprising ball player on the Blue team, has made over five yards a carry, and is a better than average blocker. The other halfback, Hub Pruett, is known more for his family lineage than his running ability. Pruett, the type of running ability. Pruett, the type of runner who needs the blocks, has averaged just under five yards a carry; nevertheless, he is known primarily as the son of the St. Louis Brown pitcher who could strike out Babe Ruth. Six-foot-three-inch...
...more scientific than you might think," he notes. "In the past, football people felt that defense play was mostly instinctive. You set up your six or seven-man line, figuring that the natural reaction is to protect oneself, and that therefore a lineman would automatically get away from a blocker and move to the ball-carrier...
...small (5 ft. 6½ in.), earnest funnyman was born Aaron Chwatt, the son of an immigrant hat blocker. He got the name "Red Buttons" because of his flaming hair-now prematurely grey-and a bellhop uniform he wore on his first comedy job while he was still attending a Bronx high school. Before the surprising success of his new show, Buttons had made some eight or nine guest appearances on TV without causing any particular excitement ("My first spot was on the Milton Berle show four years ago. And now-think of it-I'm playing in competition...
...scored twice so far--and Kent McGinley, tackles Jack Bentzinger and Gerald Lee; Guards John Krause and Ted Berger, and center Joe Fenlon will start on the offensive line. End Brad Stevens is also sure to see action. Berger, at 185 pounds, is the squad's best blocker...
...will miss Hank very much," Jordan said. "He is a good blocker, and his spirit is an inspiration to the team...