Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Eliot in a playoff Tuesday after the two teams had ended the season in a tie, will rely on their crafty Michigan-style single-wing spinner formation, with its effective trio of plunging backs: Jerry Glynn, Willie Thompson, and Jacques Winter. Rounding out the backfield is quarterback Hollis French, who handles the team's passing...
While the Sword was intelligent (in a treasonable way), Captain Midnight combines the spirit of a college quarterback with the sagacity of a Pinkerton operative. Perhaps it is unfair to suggest that a streak of anti-intellectualism runs through this program and its fellows, but the blackest villains are generally smarter than the heroes, and considerably more sophisticated...
Freshman captain Cal Loewenstein, whose slingshot passes are similar to Yale quarterback Tex Furse's, impersonated the latter in the freshman version...
...Sacramento, Calif., Governor Earl Warren, participant in one of the week's big upsets, sat through another one: unbeaten little Nevada lost, 14-0, to Santa Clara. A fortnight ago, Nevada's star quarterback, 190-lb. Stan Heath, set a new intercollegiate forward-passing record, has now gained 1,758 yards by passing this season. But Santa Clara rushed him so hard that he had trouble getting his passes off. Even so, Quarterback Heath, son of an old big-league catcher, is regarded by pro teams as one of the prize catches of the 1948 season...
...since 1932 has Brown had such an outstanding team as the present aggregation, but there is no one man on the squad responsible for success. It has rather been a team job all the way and the Bruins' replacements like Joe Paterno at quarterback, Jim DiDomencio at halfback, Don Colo at tackle, and John Scott and Ed Kiely alternating at center have been invaluable to the 1948 campaign...