Word: mcevers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triumphant trip. Smalltown citizens-especially firemen in full uniform-cheered the team at station after station. Liveliest demonstration occurred at Bristol, whose main street is the State line between Virginia and Tennessee. Citizens escorted Tennessee's most famed back, Eugene Tucker ("Wild Bull," "Bristol Blizzard," "Black Knight") McEver across the platform so he could exchange a word with his parents, then carried him back to the train. When the team arrived in Manhattan, two stowaways were found in the baggage...
...Gene McEver scored more points than any other back in the U. S. An injury to his right knee the next summer might have ended his football playing; instead, it made him better than ever. After a season on the sidelines, he has learned how to plunge straight through a line instead of shifting through a broken field, how to shake off tacklers instead of dodging them, how to throw forward passes that sometimes travel 60 yd. Stocky, black-haired, grey-eyed, McEver wears a helmet that always falls off. Tennessee footballers remember only once when he took time...
...last week's game, the team coached by N. Y. U.'s Chick Meehan was a little too well-prepared. Expecting long forward passes, they were surprised in the second period when a Tennessee halfback named Beatty Feathers ran 65 yd. for a touchdown. Expecting Gene McEver's line drives, they were surprised a minute or two later when an alternate halfback, Herbert Brackett, behind brilliant blocking, ran 75 yd. for another touchdown. Except for Gene McEver's extra point-by a line plunge-after the first touchdown, there was no other scoring. The Tennessee defense...
...Knoxville, Gene McEver, Tennessee's bid for this year's Ail-American team, made three touchdowns which helped put Alabama out of the running for the Southern Conference championship...