Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 16 years in the ranks Jim Crowe was Marine-famed for two things: he was one of the world's topnotch rifle shots and for six years he was a crack player on the all-Marine football teams. He quit football in 1934, a year after an officer remarked: "Jim Crowe must be getting old. He used to make seven out of eight of the team's tackles. Today he made only half...
Included in Lamar's changes on the Crimson lineup is a shift of powerful Ed Davis, backbone of the Cantabs' line, from guard to tackle, to replace Bill Sweeney. Filling in at Davis's guard position will be Mal Allen, B team player last term. At center, in place of Jim Crane, is Vic Vicario, who was on the Varsity last year...
Retorted the Garden's acting president, Ned Irish: "If Allen has any proof of dishonesty in basketball games at the Garden, he'd better come through with it." (Allen promptly wired the name of one player who had "sold out," had been expelled from college for it.) President Irish announced that he would have 36 uniformed policemen, almost as many plainclothesmen and private detectives on duty this season with express orders to prevent all known gamblers from entering the Garden...
...player most likely to get hurt is the halfback plunging off tackle; the player least likely to be injured is the center on offense...
...from Denver's Security Life & Accident Co.'s unique, five-year-old experiment in insuring high-school athletes against injury. With 60 new pigskin policies written last week, the company expects to have 250 (covering some 8,000 boys) in force by midseason. On its $2-per-player premium rate covering hospital and doctor's bills, the company has lost money but gained much good will and many young life insurance prospects. Its statistics also enhance longevity prospects: one western schoolboy conference, for instance, now requires a brisk warm-up before the second-half whistle...