Word: waterfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pitchers & Catchers. The one big reason for Cleveland's upsurge is the right arm of Bob Waterfield, who in his first year of pro football established himself as a forward passer of Baugh-Luckman caliber. Rookie Waterfield was the catch of the year for Ram Manager Charles Walsh and his new coach, brother Adam, captain and center of Notre Dame's famed "Four Horsemen" team...
Their title-clinching game with the De troit Lions was a fair sample of how the air-minded Rams operate. The play-for-pay boys scarcely had their hair mussed when Waterfield passed to veteran end Jim Benton for 57 yards. For the rest of the afternoon Waterfield kept on pitching to Benton. When it was over, Benton had caught ten Waterfield heaves for 303 yards, a league record. Score: Cleveland 28, Detroit...
...Waterfield is fresh out of col lege. He started being a football hero at Van Nuys (Calif.) High School, where he met a well-stacked, laughing-eyed girl named Jane Russell. At U.C.L.A. he soon became a standout - and a constant source of worry to his teammates, who feared that Howard Hughes's actress "find" was distracting Bob's mind from football. Jane notwithstanding (he married her in 1943), Bob was the star of the 1942 U.C.L.A...
...Adam Walsh's fast-breaking T, Quarterback Waterfield proved a rare combination of razzle-dazzle and wheelhorse reliability. In his nine Ram games he has thrown 143 passes and completed 76 for a total gain of 1,449 yards. On defense he leads the league in interceptions, with six. He has place-kicked 29 out of 31 attempted conversions. His favorite play is the "bootlegger": Waterfield simply fakes to other backs, then pulls some fast sleight-of-hand and swings out around end, literally hiding the ball behind his back. This sandlot ruse has made four opponents look sick...
Married. Cinemactress Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell, 21, "still"-starred cinemactress (her first film, The Outlaw, is yet to be generally released); and her old steady, Robert Staton Waterfield, 22, U.C.L.A. Rose Bowl quarterback; in Las Vegas...