Word: holcombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compared with Coach Leahy, Stu Holcomb sounded like Pollyanna. Ten of Purdue's eleven 1947 starters were back this year, including Quarterback Bob De-Moss, a fine passer, and Halfback Harry Szulborski, who averaged better than six yards a try in 1947. That left Holcomb only one understandable gripe: a schedule that pits Purdue against Notre Dame, Northwestern and Michigan in the first three weeks...
...Lafayette, not far away, Purdue's Boilermakers were practicing in secret last week behind a high canvas screen. Businesslike Coach Stu Holcomb, who had been an assistant to Earl Blaik at West Point in the Davis-Blanchard heyday, had them hustling. He got the Boilermakers out on the practice field at an ungentlemanly 8:30 a.m., needled them with his impatient...
Jeweled Movement. In Portales, N. Mex., Millard F. Holcomb finally discovered the reason why his cow had been limping for the past six years: his wife's long-lost diamond ring was firmly lodged in its hoof...
General Thomas ("Tommy") Holcomb (ret.), commandant of the Marine Corps from 1936 through '43 (and first Marine ever to become a full general), resigned at 68, after four years as U.S. Minister to the Union of South Africa...
...embassies were loaded, too. Ike Eisenhower's wartime right hand, General Walter Bedell Smith, was in Moscow. Vice Admiral Alan G. Kirk, who had a big part in the Navy show at Sicily and Normandy, was in Belgium. The Marines onetime commandant. General Thomas Holcomb, was in South Africa...