Word: mcclaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind stocky "Red" McClain, formerly of the professional football Giants, Melville handed Lamar's club its first loss, 13 to 0. The Crimson gave the P.T.'ers trouble, however, hampering their attack with complicated defense formations, and gaining needed yardage with the controversial Harlow double shift. The winners were held to one touchdown in the first 59 minutes, and the Crimson came within a yard of scoring itself...
Doing most of the running for the visitors will be George Feldman, who packs the deception in the Tufts attack, in addition to throwing the aerials. Billy Irwin, fullback, does the plunging, and Bill Kearns handles the punting. On the line it is ends Bill Rohrs and John McClain and left tackle Guy Owen who stand...
...lineup: HARVARD TUFTS Geeson, l.e. r.e., McClain Thurman, l.t. r.t., Kirkpatrick Mroz, l.g. r.g., McGabe Brown, c. c., Rautenberg Davis, r.g. l.g., Graham Pierce, r.t. l.t., Owens Perkins, r.e. l.e., Rohrs Trumbull, q.b. q.b., Winans Navin, l.h.b. r.h.b., Kearns Jenkins, r.h.b. l.h.b., Feldman Garrity, f.b. f.b., Irwin
Emergency Call. Almost everything in handsome, blond, 32-year-old James Wesley McClain's early life fitted him to be Doctor I. Q. His father was a voice teacher in Louisville, Ky. His mother was a church organist. At Southern Methodist University, McClain majored in English and public speaking, made the varsity debating team. This led to the Dallas Little Theatre, then to an announcer's job for Station WFAA, Dallas. In 1940 Chicago's Grant Advertising Agency made him director of all its radio activities. A year later, in an emergency, he stepped into the agency...
...months the Carter Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, had been drilling for oil in the middle of Farmer R. F. Cottingham's corn and cotton fields in McClain County, Oklahoma. Now, as the drill bit touched 10,620 ft., the drillers had brought in the gun perforator to shoot 60 half-inch cartridges through the heavy steel casing. They were testing the famed Wilcox sand that, at a much shallower level (from 5,000-6,000 ft.), had turned the great Oklahoma City Field into a bonanza 15 years before...