Word: evashevski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nelson is familiar with the Stadium. He tried it out in 1940 when he was the wingback on the Michigan team that shut out Harvard 26-0. The three other men in the backfield were named Tom Harmon, Forrest Evashevski, and Bob West fall...
Directing the team is Captain and quarterback George Ceithaml, who is a canny play-caller and rugged blocker like his predecessor, Forrest Evashevski...
...viewed the batch of candidates for a team to meet twelve of the toughest outfits in the Midwest, he moaned: "They have less coordination than a third team at Minnesota." But gloomy Bernie soon discovered that his trainees, though variously tutored, had high possibilities. Besides Michigan's Forest Evashevski, Ohio State's Dick Fisher, Iowa's "Bus" Mertes and Northwestern's George Benson, he was blessed with a triple threat named Bill Schatzer, who had hid his brilliance for four years under a bushel named North Central College in Illinois. In the Seahawks' first...
Overshadowed by Johnson, but very much there, Corky Korczowski is the unsung Evashevski of the Indian backfield. He, too, is a Senior, with three years under Voyles behind him, and, unlike most blocking backs, can actually sub for fullback Johnson...
This Saturday, at Ann Arbor, Minnesota and Michigan will fight for the Little Brown Jug, a trophy that has survived 38 years of football rivalry. Until last week, this year's Michigan team-"wrecked" by the loss of Tom Harmon and Forrest Evashevski-was written off as a pushover for Coach Bernie Bierman's gigantic Gophers, favorites to win the mythical 1941 football championship of the U.S. as they did the 1940. But last week Michigan's omens improved: Michigan outsmarted Northwestern (14-to-7). More important for the superstitious, its victory was won with brilliant touchdown...