Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type of player he wants, Brown sends his scouts to small colleges. From Nevada, he picked up Negro fullback Marion Motley, who is already being spoken of as a more devastating line-plunger than Army's "Doc" Blanchard. He collected a great pass-catching end (Mac Speedie) from the University of Utah, a great punter ("Horse" Gillom) from Massillon (Ohio) High School, the best place-kicker in the land (Lou Groza), who never played varsity at any college. The only big-time college hero on his squad is his passer, trigger-armed Otto Graham, late of Northwestern...
Outweighed 12 pounds per man on the forward wall and five pounds per player in the secondary, a nevertheless dangerous Exeter eleven invades the Freshman football field this afternoon at 2 o'clock...
Margarita calls a great football player one who can block and tackle as well as run. He considers Frank Sinkwich one of the finest all around players in his experience. "I like aback who is heavy fast, and hard-running," he says with a chuckie. "And that's Sinkwich...
There is also a rumor extant in these United States that he is the only player in the history of professional football ever to cover fleet touchdown making end Don Hutson along. Faced with this query, Bob was hard put to play himself down successfully. He explained that nobody ever covered Hutson alone...
...Ernest Baker is not only a splendid artist but an excellent chess player as well...