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...Name Game...
...quite accurate to say that George Stanley Halas invented pro football. He was, after all, only seven months old in 1895 when the first pro game was played. But after almost five decades as player, coach and owner, "Papa Bear" of the Chicago Bears does have a couple of impressive credits in the football record book. One is the longest run (98 yds.) with a recovered fumble (the fumbler: Jim Thorpe) in the history of the National Football League. Another is the National Football League...
...victories against 142 losses and 31 ties. A master strategist, he perfected the T-formation, initiated the man-in-motion and the use of spread ends, was the first coach to employ movies for spotting mistakes and plotting plays. A superb judge of talent, he gave the game some of its brightest stars: Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Gale Sayers. A tightfisted businessman, he was known to wrestle fans for the ball after extra-point kicks, and a player once complained that Halas provided only two bars of shower soap for 36 men. To a Bear player who pleaded...
Harvard coach Norm Shepard has returned from Florida to coach the team in tomorrow's game. Loyal Park, who will succeed Shepard as head coach next year, has been running the drills for the past week...
...lavish public ceremony upon receiving it back. The senior indicated that if the Lampoon didn't comply, Find-a-Bird might be dissolved to become Melt-a-Bird. When the lbis finally was ready to be returned to the Lampoon, the required celebration was arranged, before the Dartmouth Game at Freedom Square...