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Furthermore, Pittsburgh's other Pirates, professional footballers, announced that they were headed for the championship of the National Football League this fall. Reason: Owner Art Rooney, whose hunches on horse races have brought him a fortune, had at long last succeeded in signing Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White, highest scorer (122 points) and most publicized player of last year's crop of college footballers...
...many a football fan, the news was somewhat puzzling. They all knew that "The Whizzer," who had worked his way through the University of Colorado doing odd jobs at 30? an hour, had refused the Pirates' offer of $15,000 (for twelve games) last winter after a month of trying to decide which he wanted more: $15,000 or two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar...
Temple's Don Shields was the star of the tourney, Colorado's Byron ("Whizzer") White its No. 1 box-office attraction. A better football than basketball player, Rhodes Scholar-designate White grinned his way through the final game, once turned to a teammate and audibly asked, "How do you like this part of the country, my friend?" Day after the final, Whizzer visited the New York Stock Exchange. Trading (such as there was) stopped five full minutes while brokers cheered...
...Interest in the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas between Rice and the University of Colorado lay in seeing whether Rice could box up Rhodes Scholar-Select Byron ("Whizzer") White. But in the firct ten minutes of play White smartly intercepted a pass for one touchdown, successfully completed a pass for another, and kicked a pair of extra points, before his line petered out. Then the Rice line smothered him while two Rice sophomores, Ernie Lain and Olie Cordill, led their team to four touchdowns. Score: Rice 28, Colorado...
University of Colorado's bespectacled 20-year-old Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White, All-America back and 1937's high college football scorer (122 points) who this week plays in the Cotton Bowl game against Rice Institute, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where his brother Samuel is currently a Rhodes Scholar...