Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other promising tackles and guards include tall Tom Guthrie, 230-pound transfer from Notre Dame who has been ordered to take it easy until fully recovered from oil burns he suffered during the summer; Duke Sedgwick, whose father and grandfather both played football for the Crimson; Bill Rosenau, a member of last year's Freshman team; and Gordon Stensrud, Rocky Stone, Dick Guidera, Skip Garvey, Pete Coyne, and Henry Dunker...
Traditionally versatile, Harvard's ends may do just about everything but sell peanuts this fall in the Stadium. The tipoff on just how strong his flank-men are came when Art Valpey switched tall Tom Guthrie, former first-string end at Notre Dame, to tackle when the 230-pound transfer student reported for practice earlier this month...
...says the Times, "or perish. There is no middle way. The structure is too tall, too boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...
...long lifetime, tall, gentle-voiced Msgr. John L. Belford, who at 86 is pastor of Brooklyn's Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity, has founded two parishes, built two churches and a convent, enlarged a school, and paid off debts in a manner which astounded his superiors. Other priests have often urged him to put down on paper the methods they had very good reason to respect. In the American Ecclesiastical Review last week, Msgr. Belford finally discussed his fund-raising techniques. Excerpts...
Balancing this wholesale loss is the presence of several capable athletes who weren't around last fall. Tall Tom Guthrie, a 230-pound transfer student from Notre Dame (he played first-string end) has been moved to tackle. Guard Jack Coan started five games for Harvard's informal Varsity back in 1945, and now shapes up as one of the starting guards...