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...Cornell's outstanding midfielder, Pfann who led the Big Red attack all afternon. The three goals he scored are only a slight indication of the amount he plagued the Crimson defense throughout the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Squad Loses Initial Ivy Match to Cornell | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...long last, Cornell had a football team that could be mentioned in the same breath with George Pfann & Co., the famed outfit that, in the early '205, rolled on undefeated, untied for three seasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Red | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...games without defeat when they met Cornell, their most formidable opponent of the year, last week. But against Cornell's stonewall line, Dartmouth met its Waterloo. In one of the most exciting games of the week, a great Cornell team reminiscent of the days of George Pfann and Eddie Kaw, bottled up the famed Dartmouth backfield trio of MacLeod, Hutchinson and Howe, handed Earl Blaik's Green team its first defeat (14-10-7) in two years and laid claim to the mythical Ivy League championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Man | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Since the great George Pfann hung up his moleskins, no Cornell back has run like Bart Viviano. Good passing by Lester Handleman covered long stretches between end runs and rushes. It was the first time Cornell had won this game for seven years. Cornell 13, Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...There is a tradition about sport in England", Henry went on to say, "which is not found in our highly organized and progressive system. There is a story which I think demonstrates the point I am trying to bring out about Pfann, Cornell's famous backfield man, who went to Oxford, where he took up Rugby. In Rugby there is much passing of the ball, but it is all done underhand and when Pfann and one of his former teant-mates introduced the overhand pass which is used in American football it proved to be a demoralizing innovation. In this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH SPORT IS NOT BASED ON ORGANIZATION | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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