Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swingler was selected, Brown asserted, for his natural ability and for his remarkable team spirit, which has sparked an otherwise mediocre Bruin aggregation to a number of surprising triumphs. Swingler is the same gentleman who cavorted on the gridiron last fall, running back a MacKinney punt for the only Bruin score in that November battle...
...Rise and Shine" makes you feel like doing just that. Simply making faces, Jack Oakie is sufficient for a full ninety minutes of bellylaughs. As a sleep-loving Boley Bolenkawicz, the Clayton College gridiron menace, Jack also sings, muddles over calculus and puffed rice, and runs the longest touchdown on record--several hundred yards in either direction against Notre Dame...
Charlie Guidaitis, gridiron end and 175-pound standby for the grapplers, was elected captain of the team by his colleagues at a meeting after the Andover meet...
...college days, Chief was Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Champion and the blocking back on Bobby Green's gridiron eleven. He taught English and French and coached football and wrestling after graduation at the University School, Cleveland...
...might be expected, the Frazier verses, given a sympathetic reading by Jimmy Rushing, with Count Basie's band offering staunch instrumental support, were not written to glorify the academic stature, or even the gridiron triumphs, of his alma mater. They discuss rather the Harvard Hollywood and the rest of the country know and don't love. "Oh, I wear Brooks clothes and white shoes all the time" and "Oh, I don't keep dogs or women in my room" are a couple of choice excerpts from the Frazier rhymes, and there are others...