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...Braves and the Green Bay Packers, former spare-time "honorary coach" of the Notre Dame football team; and Frederick C. Miller Jr., 20, Notre Dame student; in a private-plane crash; at Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field. An All-America tackle and team captain at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and a sportsman ever since, Miller took over the family brewery in 1947, with shrewd advertising (for year-round, quality trade) and an expanded plant and distribution network nearly quadrupled annual sales in six years, putting Miller among the top ten U.S. beer producers...
...unbeaten seasons in a row. In the mid-'20s he moved to Stanford, developed such All-America stars as jolting Fullback Ernie Nevers and End Ted Shipkey. Pop continued to try new tactics. In the Rose Bowl in 1925, his team showed a flashy double wingback formation against Knute Rockne's Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. Stanford lost, 27-0, but the double wingback became part of American football...
Died. Glenn Scobey ("Pop") Warner, 83, one of the two most powerful forces in American football history (the other: Notre Dame's Knute Rockne), originator of the unbalanced line, the single wing, the double wing in his 45 years of coaching at Iowa State, Georgia, Carlisle, Pittsburgh, Cornell, Stanford, Temple (see SPORT...
...question below, two correct answers are possible. Write in either name. 68. Each of these contributed greatly to the sports world before death claimed them. One had converted Babe Ruth from a pitcher to an outfielder and helped build the Yankee ball club; the other teamed with the immortal Knute Rockne to popularize the forward pass. 69. Within two weeks of each other, two of Britain's onetime Cabinet members died. One, a politician diplomat who resigned in protest against Munich; the other a distinguished statesman who died still stoutly defending the Munich pact...
Notre Dame's Football Coach Frank Leahy was raised in Winner, S.Dak., and the name was prophetic. As coach of the Fighting Irish, Leahy piled up a record which rivaled even that of Knute Rockne. In eleven seasons, his Notre Dame teams won 87 games (and four national championships) while losing only eleven. But Perfectionist Leahy was a sideline-pacing, hat-crushing pessimist who drove himself harder than he drove his teams, was forced to go to the Mayo Clinic for repeated physical checkups. Last season, stricken with acute pancreatitis, he was even given last rites. This week...