Word: passer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here's what one leading New York football columnist saw last week: "Harvard should stage a strong comeback ... the Johnnies figure to blast Yale and perhaps upset Princeton... Jim Kenary, a needle-point passer, will be cast for the role of Chappuis in Art Valpey's version of the Michigan offense. .. Hal Moffie, Harvard's seatback, can ontrun anybody on the Yale squad... Chip Gannon is due for a big year at Cambridge. .. Bob DlBiasio is the lad Yard birds tout as a 'second Mahan'... Tom Guthrie will be eligible next fall...
...Yalies, they're on the skids, according to the New York scribe. He thinks Furse is a much better passer than Gallffa or Gustafson of Army, white Jackson and Nadherney are potentially superior to the present crop of Cadet ball carriers, but he wonders how they can gain "behind a small, weak line." Where will the Elis finish in the Ivy League? "It's quite possible that Yale will lose seven out of nine games next fall and wind up in the league celler ... why the Elis over scheduled Vanderbilt and Wisconsin is a mystery...
...only does Conerly of Ole Miss rank as the nation's most successful passer, but he is first in total yardage gained-passing and rushing. . . . [Also] he has taken part in 61% of all Rebel plays to date. His defensive play has been as outstanding as his offensive...
...state that Bob Chappuis of Michigan is the best passer "in 1947 collegiate football." ... In five games your champion completed 19 passes, five of them for touchdowns...
...Yale coach Howie Odell's four backfield starters, only quarterback and deadly short passer Tax Furse is completely whole. Line-bucking terror Ferd Nadherny still limps from the Princeton game last week, while halfback Art Fitzgerald suffers from a head injury received against the Tigers. The man Harlow foars most despite his questionable showing this fall is fullback Levi Jackson, who needs only one good afternoon to make football history...