Word: quarterbacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basketball. After a season on Yale's freshman football team, its coach Mal Stevens predicted that he would eventually be the greatest pass-catcher in Yale history. By mid-season of his sophomore year, Kelley had fulfilled this prediction. He caught passes, mostly from Yale's Quarterback Jerry Roscoe, for touchdowns against Columbia, Brown, Harvard, Princeton. The last, on a one-hand catch, broke Princeton's 15-game winning streak (17-to-0), enabled Yale to score the biggest upset of 1934. In 1935, Roscoe & Kelley functioned together as smoothly as a baseball battery. Kelley...
...being football's No. 1 opportunist, Kelley is its most famed comedian. His contributions to the chatter that passes back & forth between two teams on the field, printed after every game, became as famed as Mae West wisecracks. A top Kelleyism was his 1934 remark to the Princeton quarterback whose team, undefeated all season, had fumbled six times in the first ten minutes: "Has the Rose Bowl got handles on it?" At Yale Kelley's nonathletic doings have paralleled his career on the football field. In his sophomore year, he refused to join a fraternity because the initiation...
...Athletic Association, but since scholarly President Mordecai Wyatt Johnson came in 1926 the administration has paid less attention to athletics. President Johnson thriftily abolished football training table, shaved the athletic budget to $10,000, hired progressively cheaper coaches until this year he got black Harry Payne, a onetime Howard quarterback, to work part-time for $900. Under Coach Payne the Bisons proceeded to lose every game, were held scoreless in four of them. Fortnight ago 3,000 spectators were waiting in the stands to see Howard play Virginia Union when an announcer ran breathless onto the field with the news...
...quarterback post Wilson and Boston return from the Varsity, while Jerome of the Jayvees is expected to wear a Varsity suit next season. At the bucking back Struck and Pope will be back from the first team, while Cohen and Prouty of the Junior Varsity are thought likely Varsity material...
...Paced by Quarterback Art Guepe, who ran for three touchdowns, and Halfback Ray Buivid, who passed for two more, Marquette rolled up the biggest score of its all-victorious season, 33-to-0, against Mississippi...