Word: quarterbacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present the A backfield is composed of Chief Boston as quarterback, Vernon Struck fullback, and Art Oakes and Bob Stuart the halfbacks. Boston is a power on defense, a mauling blocking back, a spine crackling line bucker. Oakes' speciality is hurling passes. Stuart and Struck will alternate on most of the running, Stuart being perhaps the more clusive, Struck the better faker...
...week of such adversity Franklin Roosevelt, who once likened himself to a quarterback calling signals from play to play as the football game developed, astounded the whole stadium full of politicians. Quarterback Roosevelt, having called for a line plunge on the Court Plan's three-yard line, found himself set back to the middle of the field. In the new situation he called for another plunge through the centre of the line, made a direct demand that the Court Bill be passed (see p. 10). Political observers scratched their heads, wondered what was passing through the quarterback...
Died. Judge Walter Peter ("Wallie") Steffen, 50, of Cook County, Ill.'s Superior Court, famed University of Chicago All-America quarterback (1907-08) and Carnegie Tech Coach (1914-32); after long illness; in Chicago...
Tubbs was end and quarterback at William-Jewell College (Missouri), coached Missouri high schools to get money enough to complete a graduate course in chemistry at the University of Chicago. He soon found himself in winter-ridden Superior, Wis., tutoring Superior High to national gridiron prominence...
...moment, looked at the sign that hung over it; then barked an order down the yawning abyss. We watched, fascinated. In a minute a lily-white parcel, wrapped in tissue and tied with a red ribbon, sailed out into the air. She circled under it, like a fairy quarterback, nabbed it, and, darting into her car, vanished in the rtaffic...