Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been easy. A rude jolt was handed to his plans in the past week when big Ed Weaver, one of the two ends who are the only lettermen left from last year's squad, was declared temporarily ineligible for today's game, ostensibly for failing an exam. Also injuries have been added to the basic insult over the past few weeks, and top backs Tom Bell, Freddle Meyers, John Wing, and Pote Manus were unable to appear last Saturday against Dartmouth. All of them, however, may be back in action today...
...readers of last August's front pages are well aware, Earl Blaik numbers among his Black Knights two ends, one Ed Weaver and one John Krobock--both honorable men. Behind them are Lowell Sisson, Bob Mischak, and Ron Lincoln, three more competent ends. Between the, is nothing. The Army defensive linemen soared through on every play, several times catching the ball-carrier for a loss, but more often finding themselves trapped or outmaneuvered. Dartmouth's line played more of a shifting-and-waiting game...
...foot with first stringers quarterback Fred Meyers and halfback Tom Bell out of commission and with second quarterback Dick Boyle recuperating from an injury and comparatively ineffective. The majority of the quarterbacking was done by Pete Vann, a hard-passing freshman. And there is little doubt that ends like Weaver and Sisson made Vann look better than he actually was. Another freshman, fullback Dick Reich, developed as the workhorse of the Pointers...
...Doodles Weaver Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBCTV) features a rubber-faced comic addicted to such Ed Wynn mannerisms as puns, hand-flutterings and funny hats. The opening show, interrupted by Milton Berle's 22-hour TV marathon for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and by filmed commercials for Lysol and a deodorant called Etiquet, was a melange of sight gags that didn't quite come off, monologues and studio interviews. Three burlesque comedians and Singer Marion Colby, billed as "the girl with the most beautiful legs in TV," take over when Comedian Weaver's energy begins...
Major H in Minor Colors--Skiddy M. Lund, Chestnut Hills, Mass.; James K. Weaver, Glenwood Springs, Colo...