Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale showed nothing we had not anticipated," Harlow said, "I'm not sorry about a thing--except that we lost. That Levi Jackson is just a great football player." Assistant coach Bob Margarita explained that Yale end play had ruined a series of sweeps and handoffs that the Crimson had been working on during the week, but that the same defense-formation opened up the middle of the Blue line for the Crimson...
...Bowl was flush with cheering spectators as the Carodny to Ludendorff aerial combo clicked on the opening play behind the ubiquitous downfield blocking of 215-pound Donald Coster...
...only does Conerly of Ole Miss rank as the nation's most successful passer, but he is first in total yardage gained-passing and rushing. . . . [Also] he has taken part in 61% of all Rebel plays to date. His defensive play has been as outstanding as his offensive...
Penance. That same evening, some of the high Laborites saw the cinema première of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, a play about a British official who had sold a Cabinet secret to a stockbroker. For Dalton, unlike Sir Robert Chiltern of Wilde's play, there was no happy ending-at least not immediately. His old rival, Sir Stafford Cripps, became, in addition to his other duties, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
What makes an All-America player? To be a sure shot, he must play on a winning team which has a major schedule. If he is a standout player, that helps too. But great talent on a poor team will get a man almost nowhere. And the pickers could not be blamed for that: the fairest way of measuring an All-America was to judge his feats by the quality of his opposition...