Word: doak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dallas' Cotton Bowl, All-America Doak Walker celebrated his 21st birthday by helping Southern Methodist to a two-touchdown lead. Then Walker & Co. spent the rest of the game trying to stave off Penn State, whose subs seemed to work harder than the seniors. The score: S.M.U. 13, Penn State...
...Southwest, the headlines had sought out two: Halfback Doak Walker of Southern Methodist and Quarterback Bobby Layne of Texas. Unbeaten S.M.U.'s Walker was the likelier candidate. Last week, though favoring a sprained ankle, 20-year-old Doak Walker scored one touchdown, kicked two extra points as his team rolled over Arkansas...
Four years ago, when rangy Bobby Layne and trim Doak Walker played in the same backfield at Dallas' Highland Park high school, they were inseparable cronies. Then Bobby went to Texas and Doak to Southern Methodist. Last week, each an All-America candidate on an unbeaten team, the two pals sailed into one another before a full house in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. It was the game the Southwest had waited for all season...
...Doak Walker is the younger by a year and not quite so famous as pass-throwing Bobby. But on the opening kickoff, 175-lb. Quarterback Walker took the ball, shrewdly smuggled it to a teammate who galloped 84 yards, almost for a touchdown. A Walker pass and a short run made it, and Walker kicked the extra point. Bobby, who plays only on offense, wasn't even in the game...
When he did get in, Quarterback Layne apparently forgot in the pinches that he had one of the most valuable throwing arms in college football. He tried smacking through the rough, tough S.M.U. line. The few times a Texas ballcarrier shook into the clear, Doak Walker, who played the full 60 minutes, was there to help nail him. After four quarters of even-Stephen play, it was sandy-haired Doak Walker's kicking toe that made the difference. S.M.U. won, 14 to 13, and after the game fans carried both Layne and Walker off the field. The game dumped...