Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easteners were quick to observe that only one player of their Big Three- Yale, Princeton, Harvard-made the sportswriters' 1930 All-American. Remembering great years in the past, when Walter Camp's All-American consisted almost wholly of Big Three players, the East was interested in a reverie issued to the press last week by Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, Yale's famed coach for ten years who three years ago retired to his New Haven coal business. Tad Jones remembers 26 years of Big Three football. He was All-American quarterback himself...
...Ticknor's performance last Saturday was superb, tremendous, but considering the three-year record . . . I played with Ted [Coy] and he was a marvel. He'd just run through them and the tacklers would fall aside, a lot of them with broken bones. . . . The greatest player I have ever seen? . . . Eddie Mahan. . . . The greatest Big Three team since 1904? . . . My 1923 team had a slight advantage over the others...
...defense, while Frame has been a powerful factor in the Harvard attack throughout the season. Of the two Harvard men placed on the second team. Bland was captain of the 1930 soccer team, while Broad-bent was yesterday chosen leader of next fall's eleven. The position of one player was changed, in order that he might be placed on the first team, even though outclassed at his own position. Stollmeyer of Dartmouth, brother of A. M. Stollmeyer '30, captain of last year's Harvard eleven, was shifted for this reason from center to right inside forward...
...Tennis Player Helen Wills Moody...
...Haven, Conn., Nov. 26--A. G. Booth '32S. Yale's flashy quarterback and outstanding player on the Blue team for the past two seasons was tonight elected to lead the Bulldog eleven next season. Booth who has been mentioned by numerous sports writers at various times during the season as an All American prospect has proved the main cog in the Yale team throughout the past fall, his triple threat being a constant menace to all opponents of the Blue...