Word: sinkwich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime diversion. In the East, Fordham, Penn and Boston College should produce spine-tinglers. In the West, the University of California is favored to win the Pacific Coast Conference title for the first time in five years. In the South, all eyes are on the Georgia Bulldogs and Frank Sinkwich, speedy bonecrusher who made 15 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. In the Southwest, any one of a half-dozen teams might come out on top, but preseason dope favors Texas University and Texas...
...Harvard plays its football for fun," "Chub" Peabody declared last night when he spoke, over a coast-to-coast NBC hook-up, as a member of Bil Stern's Life Magazine All-America team. On the same program were Brude Smith and Dick Wildon of Miunesota, Frank Sinkwich of Georgia, and Frankie Albert of Stanford...
...Another college coach who jumped from the bushes to the big time is Wallace Butts of University of Georgia. In their first three games this season, his Bulldogs scored 129 points to 20 for the opposition. More sensational than its coach, however, is Georgia's star halfback, Frank Sinkwich...
Playing against South Carolina three weeks ago, Sinkwich had his jaw broken on one side, cracked on the other. With his jaws wired, his chin in a sling and his breathing so impaired that he required trips to the sidelines for whiffs of oxygen, Sinkwich played for three quarters of last fortnight's game against Mississippi, threw a pass that tied the score, 14-to-14. Last week, against Columbia, Sinkwich played for nearly 60 minutes, scored the touchdown that licked the Lions, 7-to-3. "He can do everything but bite into a steak," moaned Columbia...
...Sinkwich [star halfback-see p. 62] for Governor!" shrilled Co-ed Betty Verdi. The crowd took...