Word: bronko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three seasons, 152-lb. Bronko McGugan has diligently warmed the bench as fifth-string center. At the University of Oklahoma he got none of the footballers' privileges except that of hurling himself against 220-lb. varsity men in practice. He did that so enthusiastically that two hefty teammates once decided to put him in his place: they double-blocked him out of the play, scooped him up and carried him over to the sidelines, where they plopped down on top of him. But Bronko was the first to bounce up. Said he, cheerfully: "Nice block, fellows." When the coaches...
...weeks ago, against Kansas State, Bronko could hardly believe it when the coach nodded for him to go into the game...
...wasn't because of anything heroic he did (Oklahoma was already well on its way to a 42-0 victory); it was just that Bronko McGugan, a junior in geology, too small for the big time, and unfavored by football "scholarships," typified the unsung, inglorious, eternal scrub. In Oklahoma City last week, the Quarterback Club felt the least they could do was buy Fifth-Stringer McGugan a shiny new helmet-and collected $73.25, enough to buy him four...
...insist on comparisons give 205-lb. Fullback Blanchard a sharp edge over Stanford's great Norman Standlee. Doc explodes with more muzzle velocity, hits the line with more downright destructiveness. With one more year of Army football to play, Blanchard may seriously challenge Minnesota's mighty Bronko Nagurski as the all-time exponent of straight-ahead brute force...
Hustling, 37-year-old Frederick L. Hovde first caught Purdue's eye as the slight (155 Ibs.), swift Minnesota quarterback who slid through the holes made by grid-great Bronko Nagurski, to become the Big Ten's top scorer in 1928. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, became the third American ever to make the Rugby varsity. There he caught the eye of Alan Valentine, his predecessor as U.S. man on the Oxford varsity. Hovde went back to the University of Minnesota, joined its faculty. After Valentine became president of the University of Rochester...