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Surging out of the stadium, a majority of the 54,000 football fans remarked: "Harmon is the greatest football player since Red Grange." But Grand Mogul Yost, who had seen many a star in his half century of football, went further back. Said he: "The greatest since Willie Heston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Terrible Tommy. A hero role is nothing new to Thomas Dudley Harmon. Son of a Gary, Ind. real-estate man, he entered Michigan two years ago with the reputation of being the ablest allround high-school athlete in the U. S. At Gary's Horace Mann High, he twice was named All-State quarterback, was the country's leading interscholastic football scorer (150 points) in 1936, was captain of the basketball team, pitched three no-hit, no-run games one spring, was State champion at the 100-yd. dash (9.9 sec.) and still holds the Indiana record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Less publicized than Chicago's Bill De Correvont (now at Northwestern) whose football exploits were headlined from coast to coast when he wound up his career at Austin High with a total of 210 points in 1937, Tom Harmon nevertheless was not unnoticed by U. S. college football scouts. In his senior year he received offers from 16 colleges. But he chose Michigan because his high-school coach, Doug Kerr, was an old Wolverine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Arbor campus, Tom Harmon, a gregarious, lantern-jawed six-footer with a Tarzan physique and a yen for swing music, was promptly nicknamed Terrible Tommy, or The Hoosier Hammer. As a freshman he got a D in English (he is studying for a radio career-probably sportcasting) but won the University trophy as the best allround athlete in intramural sports. Sophomore year he was tapped by Sphinx (junior honor society) and elected Pharaoh. Last week diverse sports enthusiasts named a baby and a racehorse after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Evashevski or no Evashevski, most football fans agreed last week that Tom Harmon will probably be named on every All-America this year and that Michigan not only should win its 15th Conference championship but might lay claim to the mythical championship of the U. S. Scanning the Midwestern Front, football experts saw no grave obstacle* in its march to the Big Ten title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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