Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army and Notre Dame, last year's top two, still had their honor intact, but not without a struggle. Army extended its unbeaten sequence to 31 games with a lacklustre 0-to-0 tie with Rose Bowl Champ Illinois. Notre Dame was outrushed by Purdue (89 yards to 128) and managed to win (22 to 7) only on the 14 completed passes of All-America Johnny Lujack...
Veto Kissel, a crunching fullback in the true Osmanski tradition, will undoubtedly get the nod at full. Bobby Farrell, a former Regimental sprint champ while at Boston English High, will be at right half for the Cross and, if the Crusaders receive, Walter Brennan will be pulling the QB strings of Ox DaGrosa's T-formation...
Rocky's past had come back to haunt him. The Department of National Defense confirmed the fact that the champ had been AWOL from the Army for four months during the war. During that time, he picked up cigaret money-sometimes as little as $25-fighting in preliminary bouts. It took the Army a while to catch up with Rocky, perhaps because it was looking for a man named Rocco Barbella (his real name). Caught and court-martialed, Rocky was sentenced to twelve months' hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and dishonorably discharged. His manager insists that...
...justified six months ahead of time. Both a boxer and a wrestler, Fuller intends to tryout for the Olympic team on both squads and stands about an equal chance of making either one. As a fighter Fuller has lost only one fight, a close decision to national AAU champ, Willie Clemmons, two weeks ago in the Garden, while winning 26 other fights, 21 by knockouts. Clemmons plans to turn pro the first of next year, but Fuller may fight him in a return match toward the end of November. A heavyweight, he has not met most of the other possible...
...three of the game's brightest stars-Jaroslav Drobny, Bob Falkenburg and Frank Parker-to reach the semifinals of the Pacific Southwest tourney. Then he went down before 26-year-old Ted Schroeder, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, who in turn bowed to Big Jake Kramer, the champ...