Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason is simple. Sitting in the Stadium along with 57,000 other spectators Saturday will be 18 men with notebooks. They are scouts for teams Harvard will play next year, and some of them will come from as far away as the Pacific Coast for this game...
College, however, just marked the real beginning, of his troubles, as well as his successes, in the field of athletics. His Freshman year passed by quietly enough, partly because Michigan plebes do not play outside games, but almost as soon as Butch got to the Varsity he received a leg injury which knocked him out for the season...
...paradox in personality, for it is not often that one finds a Big Nine heavyweight wrestling champion who doubles as a family man and a part-time camp councillor. He is a paradox as a coach, for he teaches the Michigan philosophy of speedy, quick line play, but himself is the epitome of the classic block-of-granite tackle...
This is not to say that Jordan violates his own principles of line play, however. He just just has had to adapt them to a physical framework that the casual observer would associate more with stolid immovability than shiftiness. He has had plenty of opportunity to do so in his long and varied athletic past, which extends back to the late '20s, when he was an all around school star at Clare, Michigan...
...mediocre workout was somewhat offset by news from the medical room, where Dr. Thomas B. Quigley announced that Captain Ken O'Donnell might be able to play against Yale Saturday for more than the one play needed to win a letter. No explanation was offered for the miraculous recovery of O'Donnell, who allegedly broke his leg against Princeton less than two weeks...