Word: minisi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college football market was wide open again. West Point and Annapolis no longer had their wartime corner on talent. Back to Mississippi State went Army's Shorty McWilliams, back to Notre Dame went Navy's Bob Kelly, back to Penn went Navy's Tony Minisi (TIME, Sept. 9). Last week the authorities of the service academies, who had viewed the trend with dignified alarm, got support from a high quarter, Harry Truman's military aide...
...these ex-service-academy footballers are likely to be drafted this fall. Kelly, having served 22 months as a gob before he went to Annapolis, is exempt. So are McWilliams and Arkansas' Clyde Scott (ex-Annapolis)-thanks to being enrolled in advanced R.O.T.C. Most vulnerable: Penn's Minisi...
Last week Minisi told why he quit Annapolis: "I wasn't going to follow a Navy career. I don't think it would have been right to get my college education at the Government's expense." Mississippi State Coach Allyn McKeen had an equally ingratiating explanation of McWilliams' decision to leave West Point: "He found it unpleasant there. He didn't like the discipline...
...last week the tide to the service academies had turned. When their civilian schools had whistled, the big names at Annapolis had run obediently back-Bob Kelly (to Notre Dame), Skip Minisi (to Penn). But Army was tougher. When Mississippi State whistled, Shorty McWilliams couldn't untangle himself from West Point red tape. Outraged Mississippians howled that their hero was being held a "football prisoner." Promptly West Point's Superintendent, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor (known as "Mr. Attack" when he commanded the famed 101st Airborne Division), sounded...
...minutes it looked as if Navy's highly advertised footballers were in for a Pennsylvania dunking. Then they tied the score, and with just 25 seconds to play fired a last desperate shot. Bob ("Hunchy") Hoernschemeyer faked an end run, turned and heaved a pass; Tony Minisi-who was a flashy Penn freshman a year ago-got there just in time to outjump three Pennsylvania defenders for the winning (14-10-7) catch...