Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odds the outstanding player on the field was Al Merck, who played the whole game for Harvard at the left fullback slot. His booming kicks and several great stops by Dick Harshman, the Crimson goalie, repeatedly saved the game...
...Senin, who was built like a football player and might easily be mistaken for a junior vice president of the National City Bank, studied chemical engineering at Columbia in 1931. He wore impeccably cut blue pin-stripe suits-the best I saw in all Russia-smoked Lucky Strikes and talked with crisp, good-humored confidence. Since his job is the running of all industry in the Ukraine, it was hardly surprising that he suffered from stomach ulcers. When he was away for treatment at a sanatorium in the Caucasus, Khomyak had a good deal of difficulty in getting quick decisions...
...good. Said American's President Paul F. Douglass: "Postwar college football has no more relation to education than bullfighting to agriculture. ... I see no reason why one corporation should hire a specialized group of employes to outrun, outbump and outbruise the specialized employes of another corporation. ..." A football player, he concluded flatly, is nothing more than "a human slave" caught in the "biggest black-market operation" in the history of higher education...
Like Leahy, 180-lb. Johnny Lujack is a perfectionist. Every fake has to be a magician's maneuver. He knows the blocking variations of every basic Leahy play-not only for himself but for every man on the team-and frequently refreshes a forgetful player's memory in the huddle. An expert field general, he clicks with typical Leahy strategies: calling running plays in passing situations...
Captain Cleo O'Donnell, who suffered a broken rib on Saturday, is expected to be sidelined about a month, but O'Donnell is the only player who saw action against Tufts who will definitely not appear in the Princeton game...