Word: luckmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pitchers & Catchers. The one big reason for Cleveland's upsurge is the right arm of Bob Waterfield, who in his first year of pro football established himself as a forward passer of Baugh-Luckman caliber. Rookie Waterfield was the catch of the year for Ram Manager Charles Walsh and his new coach, brother Adam, captain and center of Notre Dame's famed "Four Horsemen" team...
...with just about every known variety of formation in his bag-except the T. He added that after watching the Chicago Bears pulverize the Washington Redskins, 73-0. The modernized, tricked-up version of the old-hat T was just beginning to catch on; the Bears, with Quarterback Sid Luckman handling the ball and directing his team's fabulous repertory of 300 plays, were powerful persuaders...
...football professors had been dead wrong, and humanly slow to admit it. Four years ago, coaches labeled the T formation a precarious stratagem suitable only for such star performers as Quarterback Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears and Fullback Norm Standlee of Stanford. Without such power and polish, said the coaches, the T formation wouldn't work...
...doesn't takes as much punishment as Luckman because Sid works from the "T" formation," says the former blocking back in giving him the edge over the Chicago star. Tuckey also has words of praise for Wayne Milner and Turk Edwards, other of his famous teammates on the great Redskin teams, which met the Bears for the championship twice in a row, winning in '38 but taking a 75-0 licking the following season. "That sometimes happens in football," says the Chief; "everything we did backfired and everything they did worked. Besides, when the score...
...change of mind about selling was probably that Chicago's advertising millionaire, Albert Lasker, for 25 years mastermind of profitable Pepsodent, and Kenneth Smith, son of the company's founder and its chief stockholder, wanted to get out. Under the terms of the sale all stock, including Luckman's 15%, goes to Lever Bros...