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...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...
...well as playing on some fine the ball clubs he has opposed some of the greatest players of all time, and the Chief has superlatives for every one. He calls Bronko Nagurski "the greatest plunger of all time"; Tuffy Leemans, "a real gentleman"; Mel Hein, "in a class by himself"; Ace Parker, "the greatest player in all-around ability...
...tackles: Bronko Nagurski, Minnesota 1929, and Wilbur Henry, Washington and Jefferson...
...footer with a tremendous kick in his massive legs. One of soccer's hardest shots, he can boot a ball fast enough to break a man's hand. From 20 yards he has often broken the goal's netting. Despite his Bronko Nagurski bulk, Gonsalves has the nimbleness of a Red Grange. At dribbling, volleying, jumping and tackling (snaring a ball from an opponent by clever footwork), he can match his stringier colleagues. At heading, too, Gonsalves has no peer. He butts with prodigious accuracy, has headed a mud-heavy ball smack into...