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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...
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...
Shaggy-haired Jimmy Conzelman may not be the best coach in pro football, but he is a favorite of sports writers anyway. No one else has so ingratiating a way of passing off his victories, or so good-natured a way of explaining his defeats. He almost gives the impression that he thinks football is a game, not a business...
This week, WIND's Fearless Bert Wilson was at the mike as usual when Conzelman's Cardinals stalked the crosstown Chicago Bears in a battle royal at Wrigley Field. And as usual, Wilson had made his partisanship clear: "I don't care who wins, as long as it's the Bears." The temperature was a chilly 35°, but Conzelman's boys were hot. By beating the Bears, they won the National League western division championship, and silenced-at least for the moment-radio's voice of doom. Score: Cardinals 30, Bears...
...most enthusiastic presidential commentator by far was ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney. After a short visit to the White House with shaggy-haired Football Coach Jimmy Conzelman, Tunney announced to reporters that the country is in good hands. "I never saw a more solid citizen. His eye is clear and he's just as solid as a wall. His jaw is square and his stomach is as flat as an athlete...