Word: trippiness
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...Chicago's frozen Comiskey Park field, the National (pro football) League's championship was played out in sneakers instead of cleated shoes. The Chicago Cardinals ran wild in them. Halfback Elmer Angsman (ex-Notre Dame) ripped off two touchdown runs of 70 yds.; Halfback Charlie Trippi (ex-Georgia) went 44 and 75 yds. The underdog Philadelphia Eagles did some cavorting, too, but not enough. The score: Cardinals 28, Eagles...
Probably the most interesting reel on the program is a Pete Smith Specialty showing scenes from about a dozen of last year's football games. In the course of ten minutes, you can see Glenn Davis, Doe Blanchard, Bobby Layne, Charlie Trippi, and others in a series of spectacular runs and passes, nearly all of which go for seventy and eighty-yard touchdowns. Later on, in the newareel a Columbia end called Swiacki catches several passes from a prose position and beats Army. All in all, there is no grid lack at the U.T. this week...
...knew that Charley Trippi starred in the 1943 Rose Bowl game after Frankie Sinkwich was injured. He knew that Hughes succeeded Taft as Chief Justice. He recited from Byron's Maid of Athens, Burns's Tarn o'Shanter and Moore's The Time I've Lost in Wooing. He sang I Surrender, Dear and Dixie, until snippety Oscar Levant gasped: "From now on call me The Pretender." Neither Levant nor John Kieran nor Franklin P. Adams had a lookin. Everyone agreed that he was wonderful...
...news of the week was the high financing of Georgia's high-stepping Halfback Charlie Trippi. He showed up in Manhattan last week with the modern athlete's helper: a business manager. Trippi wanted to play both baseball and football. He began trading. The Boston Red Sox, who offered him a mere $30,000 to sign a baseball contract, were out of the running from the start. Then Trippi played off the New York Yankees (who own both football and baseball units) against Chicago's football Cardinals...
...Yankees, a little too sure of themselves, offered only $75,000 for five years of football, a $10,000 bonus for signing, another $20,000 for two seasons of baseball. After two days of well-publicized thinking-it-over, Trippi called at Yankee headquarters and said: "I'm sorry . . . that's not enough." Charles Bidwell's Cardinals got him for an even $100,000 (for four years) and he was still free to peddle his baseball talents. A voice from football's faded past, that of Illinois' ex-Galloping Ghost Red Grange, spoke...