Word: rusher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what the coaches expected of him. No empty-headed bruiser, he made a place for himself in the Varsity rush-line. (In those days there were no prissy eligibility rules; a man could play from his first to his last college year?and even after.) Sweating and grunting Rusher Heffelfinger helped to roll Yale over Princeton 10 to 0. The next year his team crushed Harvard and the third year overcame Princeton again...
...Postgraduate," he went back into Yale's rush-line and for that season became the darling of every Yale football enthusiast. With Rusher Heffelfinger at left of centre and Rusher Stanford Newel Morison (also of Minneapolis) at right of centre, that Yale team plowed a wide furrow through its adversaries from which grew a harvest of lasting football fame. Rushers Heffelfinger and Morison, though, had helpful teammates: John Augustus Hartwell (now a famed Manhattan surgeon) in the line; Thomas Lee McClung (onetime [1909-1912] Treasurer of the U. S.) and Vance Criswell McCormick (Democratic National Committee Chair-man in Wilson...
...Rusher Heffelfinger returned to Minneapolis where he set himself up in real estate and insurance, married, reared a family of two daughters and a son. When he was 59, he played in a Yale-Harvard alumni football game, the score of which was suppressed...
...Washington, hopeful of Rusher Heffelfinger's success at the polls, were his great and good Yale friends, Secretary of State Stimson (1888) and Republican House Leader Tilson (1891), who fondly recall that their college was founded for service "to Church and State...
...daughter of the late Seattle gold rusher "Jack" Miller, and is now in India, chaperoned, according to despatches, by her mother & grandmother...