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Georgia, more spectacular of the two, boasts the most publicized player of the year. Every football fan who can read knows about Frankie Sinkwich's flat feet, his un-Southern background (Youngstown, Ohio), his prima-donna temperament, his peculiar ability to knife inside tackle and the fact that he made 19 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. Flat-Foot Frankie was the nation's No. 1 ballcarrier last year. This fall he has discovered that he has a slingshot arm as well as flat feet. In the first six games of the season he rolled...
Praise the Lord. Last week at Atlanta, Sinkwich & Co. faced Alabama's Crimson Tide in the big game of the South. During its 60 minutes, everything below the Mason-Dixon line played second fiddle to the question of the hour: Can the Tide stop Sinkwich? The Tide, also undefeated and untied up to that point, was rated the third best team...
Bama's elephants smothered Georgia's Bulldogs for three quarters, rolled up a 10-to-0 lead. Then, just as Georgia's despondent rooters began to pray for a miracle, Sinkwich's passes found the beam. Pitching with the brilliance of a Sammy Baugh, he plunked two into the paws of George Poschner, his former teammate at Youngstown's Chaney High, for two touchdowns in quick succession. Then Andy Dudish, a substitute halfback, grabbed an Alabama fumble, scooted for a third touchdown and the game, 21-to-10. It was Georgia's seventh victory...
...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...