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Suggest your getting out the little used, long neck oil can and greasing the old, rusty cogs, for again smug, red-faced TIME is wrong. Your muchly touted Bill Corbus TIME entitled "Stanford's All-American guard" never was named for any position on Grantland Rice's All-American, much less for the position of right guard...
...Corbus, big, blond and handsome, had to submit to the nickname "Baby Face." With even less relish he heard sportwriters call him "Baby Faced Assassin." He achieved scholastic standing (in economics) far above average. Last year he was elected president of the student body, was named right guard on Grantland Rice's All-American. Quiet, unassuming, no chesty campus hero, he worked as hard as the rawest scrub in football practice this season...
...pages), typographically neat, University resembles the old College Humor, even to the conventional Rolf Armstrong cover. It includes a dozen pages of campus humor bought from undergraduate funnybooks; a novelette and a short story; a profusion of cartoons; sports by famed Grantland Rice; humorous sketches by such surefire Life contributors as Robert Benchley, Margaret Fishback, Gurney Williams, Montague Glass, Sam Hellman. Good feature : a portfolio of informal pictures of campus celebrities...
...about repealing "Mayor" Walker's boxing laws, and safeguarding the health of boxers. At Boston, a Massachusetts State Senator filed a bill to forbid boxers who differ more than 15 lb. in weight striking each other. Meanwhile sports reporters gave clues which alert Medicine seemed likely to heed. Grantland Rice observed: "Head punching has left in its wake a long line of shambling, goofy, punch-drunk fighters who walk about on their heels in the paper doll ward with badly scrambled brains...
...solemn task of selecting All-America football teams starts about the middle of November when sportswriters, coaches and colyumists begin to air their views. It goes on until Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who is generally considered to be the Ail-American selector of All-America teams because he inherited the job with Collier's from the late Walter Camp, announces his selections. The Grantland Rice All-America team for 1932, compiled with the aid of seven sportswriters who saw the teams which Grantland Rice missed...