Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitey's success in the field of propaganda doesn't stop with the gridiron. Why, it was Whitey who landed Dartmouth on the front page of all the nation's papers with the story of Heavenly Gates, the quarterback who left the pig-skin for a religious retreat...
There were no other changes in the A team yesterday, although Moses Hallett substituted for the absent Healey at right tackle. Vern Miller was at the other tackle; Lowry and Ernie Sargeant, guards; Burgy Ayres, center; Bill Coleman, quarterback; Torbie Macdonald and Joe Gardella, halfbacks; and Charley Spreyer, fullback...
...present slated for the wingback berth, may quite possibly switch positions with Gardella. On Frazier Curtis falls the nearly impossible job of filling the combined shoes of Cliff Wilson and Chief Boston as blocking back. As leader of the interference and key man on the defense, this year's quarterback will find it difficult to avoid an unfavorable comparison with his predecessors. Other possibilities at this post are Henry Vander Eb, a Sophomore, and Joel Ferris, a converted Jayvee guard...
...little Davey O'Brien, most sensational footballer of the year (he completed 93 out of 167 passes), might become the disappointment of the finale. The Scoreboard read Carnegie Tech 7, Texas Christian 6- because little Davey had failed to kick the extra point. But in the second half, Quarterback O'Brien resumed his role of hero, led his team to another touchdown and kicked a last-quarter field goal that not only gave Texas Christian the game, 15-to-7, but stamped it as one of the greatest football teams of the decade...
Sure to be selected on every All-America is Texas Christian's little quarterback, Davey O'Brien, outstanding player of the year, who has been the vanguard of his team's victorious procession over their ten opponents this season. Against Southern Methodist last week little Davey led a strategic attack that not only gave Coach Dutch Meyer's Horned Frogs a 20-to-7 victory but the championship of the Southwest Conference as well. Its work done, Texas Christian sat back, basked in its record of 254 points and 3,593 yards gained this season, wondered...