Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...massive, loudly liberal Columnist Heywood Broun, old New York World sports reporter, in his syndicated column, picking his own 1937 All-America Stuffed-Shirt Eleven. Eliminating a left wing entirely, Leftist Broun put both Sinclair Lewis and Boake Carter at right guard, Dale ("How to Win Friends") Carnegie at quarterback, New York's bumbling Senator Royal Samuel Copeland at fullback. "Because he has a tendency to block the attack of his own side," Mr. Broun, against the advice of friends, made A.F. of L.'s President William Green centre instead of a blocking back. At "extreme" right...
...mean choice did California make, however. It chose a great Alabama team coached by Frank Thomas who was Knute Rockne's quarterback at Notre Dame in 1921-22. This choice gives California a chance to defeat a university which in four previous appearances in the Rose Bowl has never been defeated. An earnest of a thrilling game on New Year's Day is Alabama's 1937 record. Undefeated and untied this season, Alabama scored 225 points to 20 for its nine opponents, won the last three (from Tulane, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt) by scoring in the last five...
Only two ivy leaguers made Grantland Rice's All-American eleven now appearing in Collier's: Brud Holland of Cornell, end, and Clint Frank, quarterback...
Rocky Mountain Conference. Not since 1924 has the University of Colorado been undisputed champion of its conference, but last week when undefeated Colorado lined up against the University of Denver no one doubted that it would be so this year. Led by a young quarterback, Byron ("Whizzer") White, who like his brother Sam two years ago is not only a great player but an honor student, president of the student council and leading candidate for a Rhodes scholarship, Colorado had romped over all its opponents. The question was whether Whizzer White would regain from Sid White (no relation) of Brooklyn...
...humor, a slightly ponderous display of undergraduate learning, a unique brand of lecture-platform whimsy. His 42nd, The Trojan Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse is a symbol whose exact significance cannot be determined from the text...