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...that he waves to everyone he meets on campus, never misses football practice, belittles his own talents, bends over backward to praise his teammates. After he scored all 27 points in the Iowa game three weeks ago, he said: "Anybody could have done it with that Evashevski [200-pounder who once said he didn't want to-play football if he couldn't "crack 'em"] and those others in there blocking like that. They don't make them any better than that Evashevski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Promotion of Jim Grunig, 200-pounder, to the third short guard post on the Red Jersey squad was announced yesterday afternoon, which brings the total number of the select group to 34. The fact that Penn is bringing a bargeload of behemoths to the Stadium may have had something to do with Harlow's move in adding more avoirdupois to the Varsity...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: Koutman Replaces Kelly at Right End for Penn Game; Third Shift | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

...South Bend, Ind., mighty Notre Dame, No. 11contender for the mythical U. S. football championship this year, had a hard time shaking off a scrappy Georgia Tech team led by a tantalizing little 140-pounder named Johnny Bosch, finally subdued them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Tuker off Tocopilla, Chile and Calif ornian J. W. Jump off Catalina Island. What made last week's catch an unparalleled achievement was the fact that Angler Lerner had done it for the second time-one day in 1936, in the same waters, he caught a 535-pounder and a 601-pounder (a North American record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Louisburg | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Dapper, well-nosed, greying, Bliss is rated as a modernist with a sense of humor. Last month Manhattan heard the world premiere of a Bliss piano concerto, showy, noisy, built for big-muscled virtuosos and played (with the Philharmonic-Symphony under Sir Adrian Boult) by just such a pounder: a British onetime prodigy whose concert name is now simply Solomon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bliss and Things | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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