Word: scorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game was actually won at the foul-line, however, as the Crimson converted 19 out of 26 free throws while the Jumbos sank 13 of 24. Otherwise, Tufts held a slight edge in marksmanship from the floor. Left forward Bob Burbacher was high scorer for the losers with 20 points, while his more publicized teammate and captain, Bob Skarda, was second with 19. Key man in their offense, however, was lanky Ken Barnhart, despite his low scoring total of only 4 points...
...High scorer of the evening was Gantt, with 11 points. Alternating with Clark in the left forward slot, he played a generally agressive game, particularly under the Cadet backboards...
Being the Point's best all-round athlete was something else again. After he got the upper hand of his studies, he became the all-conquering football team's top scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel...
...three all-star teams. Now, on the way back, the 6th would be hard-pressed to muster one full team. Some of those lost on Okinawa: Killed-Wisconsin's 1942 All-America end, 1st Lieut. Dave Schreiner; Purdue's 1943 All-America fullback (and leading Big Ten scorer), Corporal Tony Butkovich; Notre Dame's 1942 captain and end, 1st Lieut. George Murphy...
Hustling, 37-year-old Frederick L. Hovde first caught Purdue's eye as the slight (155 Ibs.), swift Minnesota quarterback who slid through the holes made by grid-great Bronko Nagurski, to become the Big Ten's top scorer in 1928. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, became the third American ever to make the Rugby varsity. There he caught the eye of Alan Valentine, his predecessor as U.S. man on the Oxford varsity. Hovde went back to the University of Minnesota, joined its faculty. After Valentine became president of the University of Rochester...