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...football season of 1949, the world had paid too little attention to talented, towheaded Quarterback Eddie LeBaron of College of the Pacific, but that was not the fault of his fans in California's San Joaquin Valley. After the 20-year-old wonder boy led Pacific (en rollment: 1,250) through an undefeated season, San Joaquinites were aghast when Eddie got no higher national recognition, for the third straight year, than the "Little All-America." Was that his penalty for playing with a school in football's minor leagues? To show how they felt, admirers showered him with...
...suggest that Bob Celeri, the University of California's "mad engineer," was a better quarterback than Eddie, they marched down Mission Street and pulled up fighting mad in front of the Chronicle Building. From the safety of a third-floor window, Sport Editor Leiser apologized and dutifully sang LeBaron's praises. Four days later the Chronicle ran a Page One editorial calling for a game between mighty California and little Pacific. California, its sights set on the Rose Bowl, shrugged off the idea like a bear shrugging off a flea...
...Mary DeQuedville Briggs, widow of LeBaron Russell Briggs, former dean of the University and president of Radcliffe, died September 11 in Milwaukee. A native of Cambridge, she was 89 at the time of her death...
...shepherded the first group of newspapermen through their year at Cambridge. Last week Harvard invited MacLeish back for life. The Harvard Corporation picked him for the 178-year-old Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, first held by John Quincy Adams and later by such great teachers as LeBaron Russell Briggs (1904-25) and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland...
...muscularly modest man who sits behind a white-vaulted door in University Hall has a tricky and unromantic job ahead of him. Dean Bender, who claims he is "not the kind of man about whom legends collect," faces the task of filling the shoes of two almost legendary deans, LeBaron Russell Briggs and A. Chester Hanford. With his work three fourths disciplinary and routine, he has to draw in the reins on his positive plans for the College while he carries out a policy that the Faculty has formulated. A narrow thread between Administration and Student, his is probably...