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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The next week at West Point I was cheering for O'Brien, Butler, and Bender. I out-howled the Army major next to me watching the mighty efforts of Howie Houston. I thumbed through my program to find out that number 77's name was Willie Davis. When Army center...

Author: By Samuel Spade, | Title: Crimson, After Victory and Defeat, Is Finally a Team | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

The starting Adams lineup: le, Phypers; lt, Holt; lg, Ingram; c, Rogers; rg, Boucher; rt, Nosek; re, Evans; qb, Bogert; lh, Fialkow; rh, Davis; fb, Andrews.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Games Cover Soldiers Field | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

Editor Davis assigns four of her staff to do a picture & text feature on an Indiana small-town wedding. It is such a fascinating assignment that she drops everything to go along on the job herself. The writer is her old beau (Robert Montgomery), an unemployed foreign correspondent.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

The pattern of the game was a master stroke. When the Brown ends hung back, the Crimson swept the flanks; when they crashed, Gannon and Shafer jump-passed and bucked for twenty yard gains. Above all, Harvard trapped. On fully half the plays Will Davis pulled out of the weak...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crimson Teamwork Spills Powerful, Favored Bruins | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

All the linemen were good. Perhaps Davis and Houston were the best. Each played 54 minutes, blocking and tackling almost faultlessly. Houston made one crashblock which demolished two Bruins and left 25,000 spectators gaping. Davis played opposite Brown star Bill McLellan, and the latter's name sounded out but...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Crimson Teamwork Spills Powerful, Favored Bruins | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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