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Word: quarterbacked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Manager. At college (University of Iowa), Earl was neither star quarterback nor honor student but, characteristically, general manager of athletics. In 1905 he took his law degree, began encouraging friends to call him "Harrison." Most Iowans continued to call him "Spang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahout | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...score was 14-to-12, with 28 seconds to play. Unbeaten in nine games, outplayed in its tenth but ahead anyhow, Notre Dame was about to cinch its national championship. Then Seaman Steve Lach, former Duke and Chicago Cardinal star, heaved a 54-yard pass to Quarterback Paul Anderson, and that was the ball game: Notre Dame 14, Great Lakes Naval Training Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: R. I. P. | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...first day of football practice at Columbia in 1938, photographers hauled out an old archery target. To get stunt pictures, they placed Quarterback Sid Luckman 25 yd. away and told him to toss passes. Six times in a row he hit the dead center of the four-inch bull's-eye. In seven years of college and pro football he proved that he was just as accurate under gridiron fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man with an Arm | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...Notre Dame loses only one regular, Marine Angelo Bertelli. But he is the No. 1 quarterback and passer in the U.S. and the key to the offense that has won six straight for the Irish. In his final college football game (at least for the duration) Bertelli last week threw three passes for touchdowns, scored one more himself, added two points after touchdowns, as Notre Dame romped over Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: From the Halls of Siwash . . . | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

Jerry Mann's quarterback strategy will be all out for Franklin Roosevelt, Administration and all. Texas Democrats in 1944 thus may have a clear-cut chance to endorse or rebuff the national Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Arrow's Target | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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