Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fate of the play lay in the hands of young Broderick Crawford. 210-lb. ex-football player, son of Comedienne Helen Broderick. Built up into a hulking, shuffling imbecile by means of four-inch shoes and padded shoulders, Crawford won sympathy for a monstrous character, playing Lennie as a pathetic giant who kills as innocently as an unintentionally offending child. Next to Crawford's goosefleshy characterization, that of Actor Hamilton as Candy came closest to the realism Author Steinbeck strove...
...undisputed champion of its conference, but last week when undefeated Colorado lined up against the University of Denver no one doubted that it would be so this year. Led by a young quarterback, Byron ("Whizzer") White, who like his brother Sam two years ago is not only a great player but an honor student, president of the student council and leading candidate for a Rhodes scholarship, Colorado had romped over all its opponents. The question was whether Whizzer White would regain from Sid White (no relation) of Brooklyn the national scoring lead among college footballers. When the Colorado-Denver game...
...would seem that the positions left vacant last year by the graduation of George Ford, Louis Carr, Leo Ecker, and Specs Mahoney would be hard to fill. Each of them was a superb hockey player. But lack of hockey material has not been a problem at Harvard for a good many years. Thus Joe Stubbs has many left-overs of last year and a few new men who ought to be capable of making the loss from graduation practically negligible...
...balk line, a player is allowed one shot to nudge the object ball out of anchor, eight cushion rectangles chalked off on the table, or out of balk, the centre rectangle. In 18.2, two consecutive shots are allowed...
...most preposterous "deus ex machina" we have seen in some time. The picture is hardly to be recommended on its own merits, but those who sit through it will be interested by Fox Movietone's All-American selections. We can hardly believe that Clint Frank is such a good player...