Word: nagurski
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the 19303, when Bronko Nagurski was crumpling lines for the Chicago Bears, have football fans seen such a numbing fullback as the Cleveland Browns' young (23) Jimmy Brown. Magnificently muscled (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.), Brown has a sprinter's speed, strength enough to carry along a brace of tacklers. When he hits defensive backs with a low shoulder, he can send them cartwheeling. Last year Brown smashed 1,527 yds. in twelve games to shatter the league ground-gaining record by a fabulous 381 yds. And even the lowly Los Angeles Rams, at the bottom...
Just as the season has produced no football team that towers head and shoulders above all the others, it has uncovered no single outstanding player in the tradition of Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski (1929), Michigan's Tom Harmon (1940), Ohio State's Hopalong Cassady (1955). Instead, All-America selectors-and the pro teams-will have to choose among a large group of topflight, if not superhuman players...
...Warren, she is as fantastical a grandmother as ever there was. Half-crazy she lies on her bed, her great cat-eyes wide muttering like Tieresias. But, in the end, since no one else can do it, she unearths a revolver from behind her bed, and, tough as Bronko Nagurski, she appears at the head of the stairs to pump most of her dozen shots into the murderer. Next to Ethel Barrymore, the most attractive character is Charlton the bulldog who lazes by the fire, goes out courting the neighbor's dog, and attacks the constable...
...Tricks. Halas himself quit playing in 1930, but with such great stars as Bronko Nagurski, Beattie Feathers, Joe Stydahar and Sid Luckman, the Bears earned the nickname "Monsters of the Midway," and won more than their share of divisional titles...
Fullback Motley, whose knee-action power makes fans think of the great Bronko Nagurski, also had a major place in Coach Brown's original plans. Brown first spotted the big Negro as a high-school player in Canton, Ohio, later coached him at Great Lakes. Motley became the leading ground-gainer of the old conference in his third year, and this week (with 746 yards) was leading the N.F.L...