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...President John W. Taylor is a man of ideas. Unlike most college presidents, who are trying to hold down bulging enrollments, he has issued a come-one-come-all invitation to students (TIME, Sept. i). Last week he sounded off on the recruiting of beefy backs and linemen to do or die (at a price) on the football field, a subject which makes most college presidents look the other way. Taylor invited the presidents of 14 other urban colleges and universities to join the University of Louisville in an out-&-out professional football league...
...want 200 pound-linemen. Fleet broken field runners used not apply. We want men with plenty of pep and strong vocal coras," Gerald Spear .'48, head cheerleader, declared yesterday as he issued an appeal for candidates...
...afternoon of the fifth day, when two power-company linemen found him, he simply lay still and said, "Hello." They lifted the car off his mangled hand, wrapped him in their coats, dipped a canvas bucket into the creek and put its rough, wet edge to his lips. At the hospital in Oakland a doctor said he believed that the hand would not have to be amputated-just some fingers...
...linemen and two backs on the Crimson varsity won honorable mention on the associated Press and United Press All-American grid teams released simultaneously yesterday...
With many capable linemen backing up his regulars and a full spring practice behind his backfield men, Harlow promises to produce a 1947 eleven that could stand this year's on its head. At any rate the master-mind will be in there pitching, as his wife could probably tell you. She woke up at 6:30 o'clock this past Sunday,--if the tale is not apocryphal--found Mr. Harlow's light on, and asked him to explain. The reply: "Just thinking up a couple of plays for next year's Yale game, my dear...