Word: heisman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legislation prohibiting the matching of football teams whose players differ in weight to any great extent is urged by John N. Heisman, football coach...
Grantland Rice, of the New York Tribune, with the aid of "Big Bill" Edwards, of Princeton, Coaches John Heisman, of Pennsylvania, Fielding Yost, of Michigan and Glenn Warner, of Pitt, have recently picked out an all-time all-American football team...
...Heisman: Ends. Exerdine of Carlisle and Shevlin of Yale; Tackles, Schute of Michigan and Cutts of the University: Guards, Heffelfinger of Yale and Hare of Penn: Center, Schulz of Michigan; Quarter, Eckersall of Chicago; Backs, Thorpe and Guyon of Carlisle, and Coy of Yale...
Georgia Tech now has practically an unobstructed path to the Southern Intercollegiate football championship. Although they lost their famous coach, Heisman, now in the throes of a losing season at Penn, they have shown themselves to be a fast and powerful eleven worthy to represent the South in any intersectional struggle. This year they have no fleet-running back equal to Strupper, nor have they any battering ram like the former Carlisle player, Guyon. But Heisman's successor seems to be able to get the lightning start on his shift plays that Heisman himself is not instilling at Franklin Field...
...this season, is shown by the fact that in its first six games it has scored 232 points to its opponents' 28. Chief among its victories are the 14 to 7 defeat of Dartmouth, and the decisive 28 to 8 defeat of the University of Pennsylvania team, coached by Heisman, the master of shift formations. The next three games, however, will give the Blue and White a still better chance to prove its power. Next Saturday they meet the giant Nebraska "Cornhuskers," who are considered the heaviest eleven in the country, without an exception. Lehigh follows the Westerners...