Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most football players take at least one bruising season to earn a reputation. Purdue's Leonard ("The Arm") Dawson took just three-quarters of an hour spread across two autumn afternoons. Last month, while the Boilermakers beat Missouri 31-0, the 19th-year-old sophomore spent 23 minutes on the field, threw passes that scored four out of five of his team's touchdowns. Fortnight ago, Dawson took just 22 minutes to upset powerful Notre Dame by tossing four touchdown passes, intercepting one Irish attempt, and kicking three out of four conversions. Final, score: Dawson 27, Notre Dame...
Pretty Prize. Len Dawson is the first to admit that no man really wins ball games all by himself. (Proof of Purdue's powerful line is the fact that Len had to "eat the ball" only once the first 29 times he dropped back to pass.) But even as a high-school student in Alliance, Ohio, Len had a well-developed knack of winning all the athletic honors in sight. He was captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams; as a senior quarterback, he completed 100 out of 200 passes for a school record of 1,615 yards...
...South Bend, Ind., Len Dawson, a 19-year-old Purdue sophomore, fired four touchdown passes for a total of 156 yards, as the Boilermakers beat highly favored Notre Dame, 27-14. The upset, which ended Notre Dame's unbeaten streak of 13 games, was a repeat performance; in 1950 Purdue won 28-14, after the Irish had survived 39 straight. Other notable results: Army bounced back from last week's whipping by South Carolina, overran the Michigan Wolverines, 26-7; U.C.L.A.'s single-wing overpowered Maryland's split...
...case involving an Orlando, Fla. bond dealer named Roy E. Crummer. In 1944 Crummer was indicted for mail fraud in connection with two municipal bond issues. Crummer's trial lawyer brought into the case Attorney Francis P. Whitehair, a crony of Harry Truman's crony Donald Dawson. In turn...
...Shippers Kenneth Dawson and William Sexton, Builders Harry Morrison and Stephen Bechtel, Oilman Richard Hanna and Philippine Industrialist Andres Soriano. - Named for Cuffe's alma mater, the University of California. A golden bear on a blue background is also the line's trademark...