Word: passer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrimmage session, tailback Jim Noonan, a shifty runner in the open field, bad a good day, and wingback Pete Harwood, a left-handed passer who may make his 1946 Stadium debut in Saturday, drew praise for his efforts. Jack Fisher, who is expected to alternate with Charley Glynn again at center, was blocking well...
...stands now it will be either Gannon or Flynn, with Cleo playing plenty during the game but not starting. In either case Harlow will have a strong man at the position. Gannon is a southpaw passer, and Flynn, who won his freshman letter in '42, starred last year until just before the Yale game, when an injury put him out of action...
Just which league was better no one yet knew. All-America had a prize crew of ex-All-Americans, such top-salaried stars as Chicago's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch; Los Angeles' "Jarrin' " John Kimbrough; Brooklyn's thread-needle passer Glen Dobbs; New York's flat-footed Frank Sinkwich; San Francisco's 245-lb. fullback Norm Standlee. So far the old league wasn't speaking to the new, though they played in three of the same cities-New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Until their feuding stopped, pro football would have no World...
...Italian-born ex-coal-passer, Tony Stralla entered rumrunning in Prohibition days "to keep 120,000,000 people from being poisoned to death." He generously invested a small fortune in a steamship, brought vast supplies of liquor from Vancouver, B.C. to the arid California coast...
...They Like Me." He beamed as voices lifted in startled salutation. "They like me," he said. "To have a friend, be a friend. Some say live and let live. I say, live and help live." He looked a little annoyed when a passer-by simply goggled without replying...