Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There have always been big boys in the Big Ten: Chicago's Walter Eckersall, Illinois' Red Grange, Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski and Herbert Joesting, Michigan's Willie Heston, Harry Kipke, Benny Friedman. But Tom Harmon can run like Grange, buck like Joesting-and pass and kick besides. Although he may not be a point-a-minute man he could almost qualify as a half-a-point-a-minute man. In the first three games of the season (in which he played a total of 124 minutes), he scored 52 points: seven touchdowns, seven points-after-touchdown...
...Terrible Tommy and his teammates, Fielding Yost and his Homecoming guests-including fabulous Willie Heston (1901-04), whose spraddle legs once scored no touchdowns-wriggled in among the 54,000 football fans in Michigan's magnificent stadium. They saw the vaunted Michigan backs-(Harmon, Kromer, Westfall and Evashevski)-trot onto the field and in less time than it takes to say Evashevski make sausage meat of a not-so-bad Yale team that had beaten Army and Columbia earlier in the season...
When the final whistle blew, Harmon had scored 21 of Michigan's 27 points (he kicked three points-after-touchdown), had gained 203 of Michigan's total of 353 yards from scrimmage. At the end of the first half, Yale had made only one first down; just before the end of the third quarter, they crossed midfield for the first time; and, although they managed to sneak in an airway touchdown in the last few minutes of the game, their 27-to-7 drubbing was practically a knockout. All afternoon the husky Yales had gained only 35 yards...
Terrible Tommy. A hero role is nothing new to Thomas Dudley Harmon. Son of a Gary, Ind. real-estate man, he entered Michigan two years ago with the reputation of being the ablest allround high-school athlete in the U. S. At Gary's Horace Mann High, he twice was named All-State quarterback, was the country's leading interscholastic football scorer (150 points) in 1936, was captain of the basketball team, pitched three no-hit, no-run games one spring, was State champion at the 100-yd. dash (9.9 sec.) and still holds the Indiana record...
...exploits were headlined from coast to coast when he wound up his career at Austin High with a total of 210 points in 1937, Tom Harmon nevertheless was not unnoticed by U. S. college football scouts. In his senior year he received offers from 16 colleges. But he chose Michigan because his high-school coach, Doug Kerr, was an old Wolverine...