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Joslyn and Joe Conzelman of the freshmen staged a punting duel, with the prep school athlete gaining the best end of the competition. Conzelman averaged just under 30 yards, while Joslyn had an amazing 43 yard average on four kicks
...Stan Pfahl and Bernie Kafka at tackles, guards Herb Grossman and Tim Anderson, and Pete Stern at center. Stern won the starting nod over Chuck Wood and Bill Toohey, although the latter two can be expected to see plenty of action. The backfield has Tom Cambell at quarterback. Joe Conzelman and Frank White at the halfback positions and Bob Albert at fullback...
...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...