Word: mcgills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theodore Green (87), Iowa's Guy Gillette (75)) Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney (69). West Virginia's Matthew Neely (79), Virginia's A. Willis Robertson (67), Nebraska's Keith Neville (70), South Carolina's Edgar Brown (66), Kansas' George McGill (75) and, of course, D'Ewart's own opponent, Senator Jim Murray. Murray, stung by the oblique reference to his age, promptly boiled over. Said he: "I'm so decrepit I would welcome D'Ewart to come on this platform...
Besides the gold pants, Yale has several other new items which may prove to be equally spectacular. One of them is Dennis (The Menace) McGill, a very fast and shifty halfback. He retired in the second quarter with a charley-horse after getting Yale off to a 7-0 lead, or the Yale total might well have been higher. Given a couple of key downfield blocks, McGill, a sophomore, can be a scoring threat from anywhere on the field...
...Yale line is big and strong, headed by an enormous sophomore guard, John Osweichik, and this is where the visitors held the edge over Lou Little's hardy little band today. Yale sprung McGill loose for its first score and simply ground out its second by bits and chunks through the Lion tackles late in the game...
...process of attrition. Columbia is probably not so had as it looked a week ago, when the undermanned Lions obviously melted in the heat against Princeton. Then again, perhaps they're not so good as today's score indicates, either. It might have been a different story with McGill going...
Professor McGill is a separate case, as he admitted before the board that he lied to a New York legislative committee about Communist Party membership thirteen years...