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...South Bend, the well-organized luck of the Irish still held. Notre Dame was up with a new 200-lb., 6-ft. 3 sparkplug, 17-year-old Joe Gasparella, touted to be as good a passer as Angelo Bertelli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Teens and TNT | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...TIME, wrong on Sparkplug Schultz, assures Unionist Streit that 1) some of its best friends are ministers and professors, 2) it does not find democratic discussion necessarily inept and dreamy, 3) it agrees that results count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Savage, the Bruin tailback and sparkplug, made most of the difference between the teams, being personally responsible for the first two scores, although the third came after he had been forced to retire with a leg injury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Football Game Impossible; Brown Scores Three In Practice | 9/28/1943 | See Source »

...score was made on a pass from Frank Gillis, sparkplug of the Bunnies' running attack all afternoon, to end Al Aldrich. The point-after kick was knocked down but Charlie Purington landed on it as it rolled into the end zone for the extra score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURITANS AND BUNNIES STILL ARE UNBEATEN | 10/28/1942 | See Source »

Rohde, who has been outstanding in the open field and on reverses, seems likely to be the sparkplug of the '46 offense. Fast and shifty, he is also a standout on the defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOW TAKES '46 GRID TEAM'S STARS | 10/8/1942 | See Source »

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