Word: luckmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program called it Washington's Redskins v. Chicago's Bears for the professional (i.e., world's) football championship. But the 33,632 persons at Chicago's Wrigley Field early this week knew the real issue: Was Redskin Sammy Baugh or Bear Sid Luckman the better passer? The game turned into a rout, the Bears won 41-to-21, but the question was still unanswered...
...first day of football practice at Columbia in 1938, photographers hauled out an old archery target. To get stunt pictures, they placed Quarterback Sid Luckman 25 yd. away and told him to toss passes. Six times in a row he hit the dead center of the four-inch bull's-eye. In seven years of college and pro football he proved that he was just as accurate under gridiron fire...
Last week burly Sid Luckman hit his marksmanship top. Before a record crowd of 56,696 in Manhattan's Polo Grounds, he showed himself the best passer of the year, perhaps the best in football history. As his Chicago Bears gave the New York Giants the worst drubbing ever, 56-to-7, Sidney Luckman...
Black-haired, brown-eyed Sid Luckman played his first football in the blare of automobile horns on the hard pavement of Lott Street, Brooklyn. After graduating from Columbia, he signed up with the Bears four years ago. But this week, at 26, he announced that his career was close to its end: he has signed on as an ensign in the U.S. Maritime Service, expects his call any minute...
Also undefeated are the Chicago Bears. Before he turned his team over to Co-Coaches Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos and joined the Navy, Bear-Owner George Halas had built a squad that still looks like the League's strongest. Its star is Sid Luckman, Columbia ace of 1938, whose passing record of 53 completed out of 90 attempts is 10.8% behind Baugh's (46 completed of 66 attempted...