Word: quarterbacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Year's Hero. Another reason for the Redskins' current popularity is a young man named Sammy Baugh. Last year, a senior at Texas Christian, he was named All-America quarterback. Somewhere in his career a particularly idiotic sportswriter named him "Slingin' Sam" because he threw a football as easily and as accurately as a baseballer throws a baseball. Slingin' Sam's nickname has this year been a double asset. Not only does it fit snugly into headlines, but sports-reading opponents, who always expect a pass whenever Sam Baugh has the ball, are disconcerted...
...first demonstration of power, Georgia Tech took the ball on its own 35-yd. line, and in ten plays scored a touchdown. That flight was also a sample of the afternoon's play. It began with a 33-yd. forward pass, followed by a forward from Quarterback Sims to End Jordan who lateraled to Guard Wilcox for a first down on the 18-yd. line. Before the afternoon was out Georgia Tech had completed eleven passes, many of them breath-taking forward-laterals and lateral-forwards, for gains averaging over 15 yards apiece. The score seesawed, between brilliant running...
...team at Vanderbilt University which scored a 4-to-o victory over the football sensation of the age, Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indians. It emerged again after the War when Centre College, an almost unheard of institution of 200 students at Danville, Ky. flared up briefly with All-America Quarterback Bo McMillin* and upset a string of topflight U. S. teams...
...other House football clash saw a 0-0 tie between the Winthrop and Adams elevens. The closest to a score came in the last minutes of the first half when Winthrop's quarterback, "Little Joe" Hindle intercepted a pass on his own 40 yard line and ran over 25 yards before being forced out of bounds...
With only a few minutes to play, Harvard had capitalized on two breaks to put the ball on the Dartmouth six-yard, line. At that time a third string quarterback was directing the team, and desperately searched through his fund of football lore to see how he could stage off the impending catastrophe. Then he remembered a quarterback's meeting in which he had posed the following question to Blaik...