Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...milk and 656 Ibs. of butterfat in a year. Two others, Cavalier's Swanky Gold and Cavalier's Swanky Design, would have been bull champions had it not been for Swanky Dan; when Swanky Dan won the Grand Championship at the Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo, Iowa last year, they followed him in second and third places. He won the Grand Championship again this year; two heifers he sired won the junior and junior-reserve championships...
Four years of service led him fur and wide, first with a V-5 outfit, where he played a season of football with the Bernic Bierman-coached Iowa Seahawks. Later on he was transferred to Pearl Harbor where he was co-coach of the Fort Island team there until his discharge in the fall of 1945, at which time he made a boe-line back to Michigan where he took on the dual jobs of assistant line coach and Varsity wrestling coach...
...half he worked--in the summer on construction jobs, in the winter in a furniture factory--all with two aims in mind, to gain enough weight to play college ball, and to earn enough money to pay his way through. In the fall of 1937, McCabe enrolled in Iowa State Teachers College. He weighed 160 pounds...
...McCabe played first string tailback and quarterbacked the team. In his last two years, he was picked as All-North Central Conference halfback. But four years after he had entered Iowa Teachers, Ben had still two terms to go; he was forced to drop out during two spring terms to earn more college money. He got one term in in the fall of 1941. He was drafted in January...
...Valpey through his father-in-law, Ozzie Cowles, who was basketball coach in 1947 at Michigan, and is now mentor at Minnesota. After graduating from Iowa Teachers, Ben discovered there was a dearth of high school coaching jobs in Iowa. He went east to Michigan both to visit his wife's family, and to locate a coaching...