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While playing pro football, Schmitt also served as head coach at St. Joseph's Prep School in Philadelphia. His pro experience helped him there, too, because he had learned much about passing from his teammate, Davey O'Brien, one of the best passers football has seen. "They originated the modern passing game down in Texas, where Davey came from. I got a lot out of being able to watch him in practice," he says. After completing his procareer, Schmitt went on to become head coach at Sharon Hill (Pa.) High School, where he remained from 1941 to 1948, except...
Favored Danny Bucceroni piled up a big lead and needed every bit of it last night to gain a narrow but unanimous ten-round decision over husky. Dave Davey of Tacoma, Wash., at St. Nicholas Arena in New York...
...Undefeated Welterweight Chuck Davey, backpedaling fast and punching hard, a unanimous ten-round decision over faded Middleweight Rocky Graziano; in Chicago...
Died. David John ("Little Davey") Lewis, 83, onetime Pennsylvania coal miner who served 14 years as U.S. Congressman from western Maryland, helped found (in 1912) the nation's parcel post system; in Cumberland, Md. When he was nearly nine, Lewis shouldered a miniature pick & shovel, followed his father down a mine shaft to earn $10 a month. He was 17 before he learned to write, was once pulled out of a mine cave-in, half dead, with a physics book in his pocket. In 1910 Lewis was elected to Congress, identified himself as a left-wing Democrat...
...RANDALL DAVEY...