Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year's Day, Louisiana State promptly accepted, will play against undefeated" and untied Santa Clara-which still has to play Texas Christian this week-as its opponent for the "championship of the U. S." Heisman Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to the country's "outstanding football player" by New York's Downtown Athletic Club, went to Yale's Right End Lawrence Morgan Kelley...
MORE than 25 years ago Homer Rhodcheaver, student at Ohio Wesleyan, discovered that had all the talents that make an evangelist's helped. He could shout, sing, play the from bone, and possessed the physical vitality that made him a good college baseball player. He was Ohio Wesleyan's cheer leader, sang in the glee club and learned persuasion by debating on the varsity debate squad...
Last week in Manhattan, red-headed Strikebreaker Bergoff told the National Labor Relations Board some of the things that he and Tycoon Rand discussed last summer. "Most of the time." said he, "we talked about football. Jim [Harvard 1908] was telling me what a great football player he was. He thought he was better than Jim Thorpe in his younger days, and I told him he wasn't." Mr. Bergoff also said they had talked business-the breaking of strikes then in progress at six Remington Rand plants (TIME, June 22). It was in connection with that series...
Captain-elect Charles Russell Allen has won, deservedly, a position of leadership among his teammates. His fine qualities as a football player are too well-known among this year's pigskin fanciers to call for reiteration. His unanimous election as captain is self-evident testimony of his personal popularity. Letterman in three sports, President of his class and member of the Union Committee while a Freshman, present member of the Student Council, he proves that athletic accomplishments may be united with others of a different kind...
...captain and on the coach of a football team rests the responsibility of creating that intangible spirit known as morale. The captain must be, as well, a driving, courageous player. All Harvard knows that Captain Gaffney excelled in both of these "assignments". And all Harvard can expect that Captain-elect Allen will creditably fill the large and capable shoes of Mr. Gaffney...