Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experience in quite a few of the 1923 games and who captained his Freshman team, was dismissed from the doctor's squad and declared available for the Holy Cross contest. The depleted quarter-back ranks were strengthened by the addition of Akers, for two years a member of Coach Fisher's squad who was dropped to the scrubs the second week of practice...
Without Cheek and Spalding, the first two quarterbacks. Coach Fisher must depend in the next few days on Stafford, Akers, and Zarakov to direct his three teams. Stafford, who excells as a ground gainer, will be used in place of Cheek when the so-called fourman backfield is desired. Akers, on the other hand, much resembles Spalding, as he has a light build and is a brainy signal caller...
...absence of so many of the regulars from the line-up yesterday, gave no clue as to what will be the main feature of the week's practice preparatory to the Holy Cross encounter. Whether Coach Fisher uses three or four offensive threats in the backfield, the question that is being most widely discussed by football enthusiasts, will probably depend on the condition of Gehrke, Spalding and Cheek on Saturday more than on the judgement of the coaching staff. The Holy Cross-B. U. game last week showed that the Worcester eleven's greatest asset lies in its backfield. Many...
Said The World: "Imagine a man like Bud Fisher not being cognizant of the vast difference between two such totally different towns as Greenville, N. C, and Greenville, S. C. . . . How on earth could Bud Fisher possibly have been so stupid as not to know that Greenville, S. C., had such a mass of spindles? . . . The World, in behalf of Bud Fisher, does the manly thing and apologizes...
...will launch a drive?the first public appeal it has ever made?to complete the building fund. Members of the committee in charge of this fund are: Thatcher M. Brown, Cornelius Agnew, the Rev. Dr. George Alexander, Robert W. Carle, Henry W. de Forest, Samuel H. Fisher, W. E. S. Griswold, Johnston de Forest, Dean Sage, William Sloane Coffin...