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...Franklin Field, before 60,000 spectators, young George Munger's young Penn team, fighting desperately to regain the prestige it lost when Princeton smudged its clean slate fortnight ago, staged a thrilling one-point victory over Columbia, 14-10-13. Halfback Sid Luckman, who gained 177 yards for Columbia with his forward passes, lost the game when one of his kicks for extra point went wide...
Against Army at West Point last week, Sid Luckman lived up to his reputation. In perhaps the most exciting of the 300 college football games played last Saturday, a magnificently coordinated Army team kept him bottled up for almost three periods. At half time, Army was leading 18-to-6. But in the final minutes of the third quarter, Luckman began to bomb the Army's defense. In the last quarter, with Columbia trailing 13-to-18, Luckman threw three passes and three times succeeded in speeding the ball toward a touchdown in a 96-yd. drive. Although Fullback...
Although Army finally lost out to the Lions and their ace, Sid Luckman, the Harlow scouts are convinced the Army team is "much improved" over last year's aggregation. Cadets who saw service last year in the Stadium are Captain Jim Schwenk at quarterback, Art Frontczak at fullback, little Jack Little at guard, and tackles Harry Stella and Jim Lotozo...
...meant relief at last from the difficulties of supporting a family on a WPA salary; to Tommy it meant at first more excitement than he had ever dreamed of. His supporting cast was a group of typical Hollywood child players-Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher), Jackie Moran (Huck), David Holt (Sid Sawyer), Marcia Mae Jones (Mary Sawyer), Mickey Rentschler (Joe Harper). Least professional of the lot Tommy's performance has also the charm of being the least camera-conscious. So far as Tommy was concerned, he never acted at all: "All I did was what I was told...
...precision on spinner plays "Struck was awarded one of the half-back posts, with Clint Frank of Yale at quarter, Sid Luckman Columbia's chief groundgainer, at the other half, and Bob McLoed, captain-elect for the Big Green, in the fullback post...