Word: weldon
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Other Tufts performers likely to see action include Dick Rosen and George Blackburn, guards; Al Nickerson, Bob Burgbacher, Addison Parris, and George Weldon, forwards...
...Southwest had its favored son, big (214 Ib.) Weldon Humble of Rice Institute, who played guard but was fast enough to play halfback. Notre Dame's line, the toughest in football, won two places-Guard John Mastrangelo and Tackle George Connor. Army contributed (besides Tucker, Blanchard & Davis) a 200-lb. end, Hank Foldberg. Georgia Tech, which 18 years ago had an All-America center, "Peter" Fund, had another in Paul Duke. The beefiest man on this season's All-America is Tennessee's 230-lb. tackle, Dick Huffman...
...preacher, Johnson had been a brilliant sociology student at Virginia Union University and the University of Chicago, sweated his way through as stevedore, ditchdigger, mess boy, night watchman and waiter. In 1923 he founded Opportunity, a Negro journal which published the work of men like Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson, gave a lift to musicians like W. C. Handy and William Grant Still...
...Cummings," said Hu Flung grumpily, for he could have Gannon and on with his Fortin telling. "Weldon," he congratulated himself. Harvard 21 Tufts...
Jones built up an interracial (50-50) faculty, soon boasted Negro names like Sociologist Charles S. Johnson, Librarian-Author Arna W. Bontemps (St. Louis Woman), the late Poet James Weldon Johnson. Northern Negroes, reversing the usual tide, began to go South to Fisk. (1946 enrollment: 1,034, with 48% from above the Mason-Dixon line. In 1926, all but 11% were Southern Negroes...