Word: chub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something new has finally been written about Chub Peabody after the newspapers completely whitewashed his personality and record. Harlow writes of the unanimous. All-American, "There was something about his eyes that I'll never forget. If you looked into Peabody's eyes off the field they were open and friendly and, set in that boyish face of his, reminded you a little of a baby's. But once the whistle has sounded, those eyes contracted into slits, a sort of green flame seemed to burn in them and you knew you were up against a man who wasn...
...Associated Press surprised no one yesterday, when, in selecting its All-American eleven, it chose as one of its guards oft-honored Chub Peabody, Crimson bulwark...
Adding one more to the rapidly mounting list of football awards he had steadily received since the season's end, "Chub" Peabody, famous left guard of the Crimson, was named yesterday to the United Press All-America Team, after receiving an overwhelming 540 votes out of a possible 1938, the largest number given to any lineman...
Captain Franny Lee and Don McNicol, sparkplugs of the Crimson backfield, received their first all-opponent honors when the Brown coaching staff selected them as two of the best backs faced by the Bruins this year. Left Guard Chub Peabody was also selected, adding to his pile of such laurels...
...Harvard plays its football for fun," "Chub" Peabody declared last night when he spoke, over a coast-to-coast NBC hook-up, as a member of Bil Stern's Life Magazine All-America team. On the same program were Brude Smith and Dick Wildon of Miunesota, Frank Sinkwich of Georgia, and Frankie Albert of Stanford...