Word: conzelman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When shaggy-maned Jimmy Conzelman coached football at Washington University (St. Louis), he frowned on slugging. Never a man to pass up the deadpanned crack, he explained: "I found biting to be more effective." In after-dinner speeches, which he makes as offhandedly as he once handled a football, he likes to describe the best player he ever had in this department, a guard named Biter Jones. "He was terrific. In one season he bit seven guards, one center and a flanker back, and was so clever at it that he was penalized only 65 yards...
...friends of Jimmy Conzelman were not sure what "normal" would prove to be. In the last 30 years his recreations had included such items as flame dives from the high board. He was also an actor (Good News), a record-making ukulele player, author of Saturday Evening Post articles and public speeches (his 1942 commencement address at the University of Dayton* was read into the Congressional Record). During World War I he won the middleweight boxing title at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, later played and coached pro football with five clubs (Decatur, Ill., Rock Island, Ill., Milwaukee, Detroit...
Nobody knew how gregarious, piano-playing Jimmy Conzelman would succeed at living a quiet, normal life. But considering the Conzelman versatility, sportwriters agreed that he might do that...
Another potential refugee from pro football is Alexis Thompson, 34, who last week hung a For Sale sign on his Philadelphia Eagles. Only last month Thompson's Eagles won the National Football League championship from the Conzelman-coached Cardinals in a blinding snowstorm. But because of the war with the rival All-America Football Conference (which has boosted halfbacks' salaries to as high as $20,000 a season), he finished $29,000 in the red with his championship team. Says Thompson, who in 1930 inherited $5,000,000 from his steel-baron father: "I no longer think football...
That the new coach should turn out to be an All-American guard, should weigh 331 pounds, and should be the best after-dinner speaker since Jimmy Conzelman (now of the Chicago Cardinals), were just added attractions. The only thing Herman Hickman had to be was a bright young...