Word: passer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passer, But Too Light...
What Will the Traffic Bear? In Philadelphia and Cleveland, club owners vied for the privilege of trying to sign such top 1948 college stars as Nevada's champion passer, Stan Heath, Southern Methodist's snake-hipped quarterback, Doak Walker (who still has another year of college play), Pennsylvania's burly center, Chuck Bednarik. That eliminated bidding between teams in each league but not between leagues. Nobody knew how much the traffic would bear. The Brooklyn Dodgers had signed Columbia's fullback, Lou Kusserow, but it was a fair bet that the Dodgers might not have...
...just a case of our hitting harder." O'Donnell added that he thought Coach Valpey "has been sensational" and that if Noonan hadn't been put out of commission in the first quarter Harvard might have won by three or four touchdowns. "Jimmy really found himself as a passer in the Brown game," Kenny pointed out, "and Saturday he might very well have played his greatest game of the year...
...spectators realized how easy it would have been for the Crimson to split wide open in the first half when passer Jimmy Noonan and spinning fullback Paul Shafer hobbled to the Harvard dressing room. Here was the problem Art Valpey had to solve. Minus a passer (Kenary and Roche could hardly lift their arms above their heads), he had to figure out a way to gain on the ground against a Yale defense that was immediately rigged to stop such an attack...
...another climax year. Barry Wood, Harvard's great passer had duelled Albie Booth of the Blue twice, and had bested him both times before the two met as rival captains in the Stadium. This time it was Harvard which held the pregame edge on the basis of an undefeated season...