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Hero of the day was Halfback Bill De Correvont, an overpublicized Chicago kid who entered Northwestern two years ago handicapped by a terrific high-school football reputation. Last week, at last, Junior De Correvont looked like the super-footballer he was supposed to be. He carried the ball 22 times for a total gain of 80 yards, climaxed his afternoon's work by toting the ball over the goal line...
Less publicized than Chicago's Bill De Correvont (now at Northwestern) whose football exploits were headlined from coast to coast when he wound up his career at Austin High with a total of 210 points in 1937, Tom Harmon nevertheless was not unnoticed by U. S. college football scouts. In his senior year he received offers from 16 colleges. But he chose Michigan because his high-school coach, Doug Kerr, was an old Wolverine...
Last fortnight, after the Wildcats lost their first two games (to Oklahoma and Ohio State), an editorial in the student newssheet, Daily Northwestern, charged that the linemen were refusing to block for their ballyhooed star, Sophomore Bill De Correvont. Angered, the Wildcats promptly beat Wisconsin 13-to-7, and last week swamped Illinois 13-to-0, even though De Correvont failed to get going...
...Evanston, Ill., Northwestern-exhibiting their precious new Wildcat, highly touted Bill de Correvont, who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High two years ago-discovered that they needed more than de Correvont's swivel hips to make a bid for the Big Ten title. Against Oklahoma, Big Six champions last year, the Wildcats were stampeded...
While Northwestern waited for its potential jackpot, Freshman Bill de Correvont who scored 211 points for Chicago's Austin High School last year, to join the varsity, the Midwest lacked headline heroes. Minnesota appeared to be the team to beat. Perilously close behind in popular appraisal, however, were Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Northwestern and even Michigan...