Word: nagurski
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...master strategist, he perfected the T-formation, initiated the man-in-motion and the use of spread ends, was the first coach to employ movies for spotting mistakes and plotting plays. A superb judge of talent, he gave the game some of its brightest stars: Red Grange, Bronko Nagurski, Sid Luckman, Gale Sayers. A tightfisted businessman, he was known to wrestle fans for the ball after extra-point kicks, and a player once complained that Halas provided only two bars of shower soap for 36 men. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance "to buy my kid milk...
...team, which also beat Harvard twice. Most spectacular of the crop is Tim Sheehy, who is centering on the first line for sophomore Kevin Ahearn and senior Gordie Clarke. Sheehy, an All-Everything from International Falls, Minn., who broke all the freshman scoring records, is the nephew of Bronco Nagurski. He hopes to play with the pros when he is finished...
...Does Is Run. Statistics aside, there is no way to fix Brown's place among the great running backs of history-except to say that he is different. Somebody will always insist that Jim Thorpe or Johnny Blood or Bronko Nagurski or Red Grange or Steve Van Buren was the best runner who ever lived. Thorpe was flamboyant and unpredictable; he could be very good when the notion struck him-or very, very bad; he was always at his best when he had a bet riding on the game. Nagurski was a runaway truck who was lucky...
...those days, pro football was insouciant and insolvent; Halas turned it into a thriving business practically overnight. Drawn by such magical names as Red Grange and Bronko Nagurski, fans swarmed to see the Bears play; in 1925, 70,000 turned out for a game in Los Angeles. No slouch himself as a player, Halas set an N.F.L. record by running 98 yds. with a recovered fumble (the fumbler: Jim Thorpe)-but he is better remembered as perhaps the best illegal user of hands in the game...
There are countless football fans who still insist that Jim Thorpe, or maybe Bronco Nagurski, was the best running back who ever lived. But in the Cotton Bowl last week, there was not a man on the Dallas Cowboys' defensive unit who was not convinced that the best back in history was crouching just across the line of scrimmage with No. 32 on his back...