Word: elroy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just which league was better no one yet knew. All-America had a prize crew of ex-All-Americans, such top-salaried stars as Chicago's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch; Los Angeles' "Jarrin' " John Kimbrough; Brooklyn's thread-needle passer Glen Dobbs; New York's flat-footed Frank Sinkwich; San Francisco's 245-lb. fullback Norm Standlee. So far the old league wasn't speaking to the new, though they played in three of the same cities-New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Until their feuding stopped, pro football would have no World...
Gain or Obstacle? Labor's first reaction was mostly favorable. Said President Aaron Mosher of the Canadian Congress of Labor: "A good equivalent of the union shop." Elroy Robson, President of the C.C.L. Toronto Labor Congress, said the ruling was "worthy of the wisdom of a Solomon...
Another contributor was Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch of Wausau, Wis., who took third place in the broad jump, then drove 160 miles to Bloomington, Ind., to pitch Michigan's nine to its sixth successive Big Ten triumph...
...Michigan had over a dozen former Wisconsin lettermen on its squad and a dream backfield of potential all-Americas: Wisconsin's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch and Jack Wink, Minnesota's star fullback Bill Daley, Michigan's own Paul White...
There are other, more human reasons for the merger. Having bossed Otis for 17 years, Elroy John Kulas, 61, probably wants to retire to a life of philanthropy (college endowments), music, gardening and good living at his sumptuous country estate outside Cleveland. J. & L.'s chief is tough, Wales-born Horace Edgar Lewis, 59, who has no thought of quitting. An out & out steelman who came up from the mills, Lewis got to be total boss (president and chairman) only four years ago, has ambitions about chasing J. & L.'s competitors, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic...