Word: doak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quarterback Meredith has certainly done as much for S.M.U. as such greats as Halfbacks Doak Walker ('50) and Kyle Rote ('51), is shepherded with anxious concern by a coaching staff that knows that S.M.U., with not much of a ground offensive, is heavily dependent on his bullwhip right arm. The coaches have still not recovered from the shock of learning that Meredith risked their livelihood by repeatedly falling off a motor scooter while navigating the winding roads of Majorca last summer. Cracks one coach: "If something happens to Meredith, we'll have to resort to the confused...
...return, Fullback Bill Bowman of Detroit reeled off a long run up the middle, to the Cleveland 33. On the next play, Detroit lost the ball on a fumble; on the next Cleveland lost it on an interception. Detroit scored first, on a 36-yard field goal by Halfback Doak Walker. After that it was almost all Cleveland, and almost all Otto ("Ottomatic") Graham...
...Doak Walker has had more to do with making the Lions the team they are than anyone else...
...Bobby was a football player at heart. As a freshman he was still playing tailback in Coach Dana X. Bible's conservative single wing. He was just getting the hang of college football when the draft started to worry him. He and Doak joined the merchant marine, but the war was over before they ever got to sea. Bobby went back to Austin while Doak went to S.M.U. On the first Saturday after they got back, they were opponents on the football field. Walker ran 50 yds. for one touchdown; Layne pitched passes for two. (Final score: Texas...
...wife around behind the car, have her bend over and serve as a center while he practiced the way he thought a T-quarterback would play. Those service-station attendants probably thought he was crazy." Bobby and Texas lost only one game that year-to S.M.U. and Doak Walker...