Word: filchock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest proof was the case of Frank Filchock, ex-New York Giants football star now under indefinite suspension in the U.S. for failing to report a bribe offer (TIME, Dec. 30). The Hamilton Tigers, outbidding rival Canadian clubs, have sewed up Filchock for the current season, have played him in game after game in defiance of the C.R.U.'s refusal to grant him a player's certificate. The U.S. quarterback's flashy passing game has helped fill the parks. Filchock's reputed take...
...Giants' boss, Tim Mara, once one of the biggest of the bookies, wondered why his two players, Merle Hapes and Frank Filchock, had failed to tell anyone they had been offered bribes...
...Halfback Frank Filchock played almost the entire game with a broken nose. In the final quarter, the weary Giants collapsed. The Bear's great passer Sid Luckman, who had not carried the ball all year, decided to run with it. He plunged up the middle, brushed aside two Giants, went 19 yards for the deciding touchdown. A few minutes later, the Bears cinched the championship with a field goal. Score: Bears 24, Giants...
Sammy's backfire was due partly to the paralyzing cold in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, mostly to an old side injury. Into his shoes jumped standby quarterback, Frank Filchock, to pitch two touchdown passes. But the damage had been done...
Last week the Philadelphians met and passed their big test. They went through, around and over Ex-champion Washington's spongy line for a lopsided 37-to-7 victory. In Frank Filchock, who pitches a sidearm looping ball with deadly accuracy, the Redskins had the league's best passer with a .593 average. But the Washington line caved in. Their prize passer was hard rushed, spent most of the afternoon sitting down...