Word: passer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House, the big round pansy bed was in vivid bloom, and the oriental magnolia trees were suddenly heavy with purple-edged white blossoms. The wide, deep lawn was a bright green. To the passer-by the Executive Mansion seemed whiter, dressier, gayer than at any time since five springs...
When an important man slips on a banana peel, he looks more ridiculous than a little fellow. That's what happened to Sammy Baugh this week. Pro football's greatest passer faded behind his goal line, cocked his arm for a risky pass. The ball hit a goal post, bounced back into the end-zone for a safety and a two-point deficit. That deficit cost the Washington Redskins the world's pro football championship...
...rival Cleveland Rams had their own steamed-up passer, Bob Waterfield, whom not even near-zero weather could cool off. Besides his ball-handling magic and coffin-corner kicks, Quarterback Bob threw passes all afternoon, completed 14 of 27, two of them for the touchdowns that put the Rams on the championship end of a 15-14 score...
...brief moment-after a 61-yard Bruce Smith-to-Clyde Scott touchdown pass-Navy almost got back into the ball game. Then Army's murderous line rushed Passer Smith off his feet. Far from their streamlined best in the last half, Blanchard & partner still managed to stage two touchdown explosions. Their day's total, five (Blanchard three, Davis two. The score: Army 32, Navy...
Pitchers & Catchers. The one big reason for Cleveland's upsurge is the right arm of Bob Waterfield, who in his first year of pro football established himself as a forward passer of Baugh-Luckman caliber. Rookie Waterfield was the catch of the year for Ram Manager Charles Walsh and his new coach, brother Adam, captain and center of Notre Dame's famed "Four Horsemen" team...