Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this awesome array of talent, one might think George Munger hasn't a worry in the world. But he does; constant experimentation still hasn't produced a quarterback to fill Gene Davis' shoes. In the Penn system, a quarterback must block like a fiend, call signals, and bark signals (Penn uses no huddle) in the best Demosthenesian manner. Jackie McCarthy, a Sophomore converted from end, has top rating right...
...monstrous Green Bay Packers) and Corporal George Cafego (tailback on Tennessee's recent wonder team). The Western Lineup boasts Lieut. John Kimbrough (Texas Aggies' 220-lb. fullback who got $9,000 for six pro games last year) and three others of the high-scoring 1940 Aggies: Quarterback Marion Pugh, Halfbacks Jimmy Thomason and Bill Conatser...
Before he did so he put in three years at the University of Idaho in his home town, was quarterback of the football team, won a $2 prize in an oratory contest, was a major in the cadet corps...
...already on the British 20-yard line. In seven weeks of fighting, starting from his own goal on the Thailand-Malaya border, he had moved 360 miles south through the steaming jungle. His weapons had been end runs, forward passes and quarterback sneaks. Now the time had come for power bucks, because pay dirt-the precious island of Singapore...
Massachusetts' own Joe Martin several weeks ago made an attempt to come to the aid of the Captains of Industry without entirely ignoring the party. Suggesting, among other things, substituting Herbert Hoover for Leon Henderson to play quarterback at price administration should calm the nerves of Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors. Mr. Wilson's fears for "the prerogatives of management" may be regarded as mildly symbolic. In fact, there is much evidence to show that Big Business has not been enthusiastically supporting the victory production campaign. This statement might also be regarded as mild. Whether or not Martin...