Word: jeffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mikkola will take a full squad of 43 men over to the Jumbos' Field House, and although he could use more depth in the running events, he has plenty of color cards to play in the field events. Sam Felton, Owen Torrey, Bill Lawrence, Jeff Tootell, Gene Harrigan and Pete Zeigler will all be on hand to jump, vault, or throw the weights...
...Yankees, as usual, relied on their Mutt & Jeff combination. The little man was swift, 5 ft. 5 Buddy Young, star Negro halfback of last year's University of Illinois team, who has kept enemy defenses loose and wide all season. With him as a decoy, big Spec Sanders, whose shoulder is higher than the top of Buddy's head, found it easier to rip inside tackle for big gains. Sanders, who didn't make the first team at the University of Texas, has gained more yards this year-1,384-than any other back in pro football...
Syndication of the strips in 1915 launched the period of what Author Waugh rhapsodically calls the "old masters"-strips that expressed some real, if limited, human situation: Mutt, lean, mean and grubby, abusing Jeff, "symbol of the little man, kicked, downtrodden, and yet eternally coming back for more"; Barney Google in love with his shy, awkward horse, Spark Plug; Maggie scrambling up the social ladder while Jiggs pathetically tries to escape to the simple joys of corned beef & cabbage at Dinty Moore's place...
...Jeff Cravath has helped by calling him "the best end U.S.C. ever...
Some of the names that seem certain to be splashed across the winter track scene this year include Sam Felton in the weights, Jeff Tootell in the shot, Gene, Harrigan, who jumped six two last spring, and Bill Lawrence, Owen Torrey, and Bud Lockett, all polevaulters...