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...down $20,000 from the football pros this spring. Two big-league baseball clubs-the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs-had been after him. So were several sharp-eyed West Coast fight managers, who thought he was a natural boxer. Last week, making his Manhattan debut against Fordham before 30,798 Polo Grounds fans, Weddmeyer, a quadruple-threat man, ran, kicked, blocked-and threw three touchdown passes...
...Mary's smart Coach Jimmy Phelan explained it: "He's a cross between Pavlova and Sonja Henie . . . and he has that Hawaiian rhythm." (Wedemeyer is half German, half Hawaiian.) In the fourth quarter, when a Fordham quick kick sailed over his head, Wedemeyer chased it back to his 30-yard line, then, as tacklers converged on him, kicked the ball right back. It rolled dead on Fordham's five. So flustered was Fordham that its quarterback called for a forward pass on the next play, pitched it smack into the arms of a St. Mary...
Nobody heard much more about him until he turned up as line coach at Fordham. Then everybody heard about his undentable Fordham line-nicknamed the Seven Blocks of Granite-which twice (in 1936-37) stopped Pittsburgh's powerhouse cold. That got him a job at Boston College, where Leahy made himself crystal clear the first day: "I did not come here to lose." B.C. bounced from national obscurity into two Bowl games in two years...
Boasting one of the largest squads on the field yesterday and styling them selves the dark horses of the coming campaign were the Funsters of Dunster House, under the tutelage of Adam Elcewicz, fomer Fordham player and coach of the Cambridge High and Latin School...
Frank J. Miklos, quarterback, played one season at Fordham before he received an Army commission and was a flashy schoolboy back at Donora...