Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West. On the Pacific Coast, every college is out to trip Stanford, favorite to Notre Dame Halfback Jack Warner. win the Conference title again this year. Backs Hugh Gallarneau and Norman Standlee have graduated to professional football; Pete Kmetovic is the only ball-carrying regular left over. But Quarterback Frankie Albert, the blithe, brilliant southpaw who is the key man of Stanford's devastating T formation, will still handle the ball-carriers, whoever they...
Forest Behm, a tackle from last year's Nebraska Rose Bowl team, and a student at the Business School, will probably help Henry Lamarr with the Jayvee line, while Frank Swirles, a quarterback at U.C.L.A. last year will probably handle the Yardling backs, and John O'Brien, Notre Dame '41, will whip the Freshman ends into shape...
...years as director of the News Office have made Wild cognizant with all phases of the University's academic life, but have given him little experience as a Monday morning quarterback. Faced with the prospect of the football season's rush of press conferences at Dillon Field House, where he daily meets with the deans of American sports writers, the genial "Art" has hired, as his right hand athletic man, D. Donald Peddie '41, of Minneapolis, who for three years directed the CRIMSON sports coverage...
Coach Boston, three year Varsity quarterback, begins his second season of coaching at his alma mater with high hopes of bettering the record of last year's squad. Assisted with the line work by Nick Mellen, guard on 1938's Harvard eleven and Jayvee line coach last season, Boston expects to mold a well-balanced aggregation from unknown material. Al Kevorkian of '37 Harvard and All-Star fame will fill the third coaching post...
...Chicago Bears, last year's national professional football champions: a night game (for charity); against a team of college All-Stars poll-picked from the recent graduates of college football; 37-to-13; before a crowd of 98,200; at Soldier Field, Chicago. The forward passing of Quarterback Sid Luckman, onetime Columbia star, was responsible for three of the Bears' five touchdowns...