Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense, the team will be far below the 1938 eleven, which defeated both Yale and Princeton. Gone and irreplaceable are Bobby Green, Ken Booth, Cliff Wilson, Tim Russell, and Chief Boston. Behind a questionable line, only Joe Gardella is a tested defensive player...
...backfield assistants Johnnie Wood and Struck will devote a lot of attention and worry. Sophomore Fred Spreyer, who is at present slated for the wingback berth, may quite possibly switch positions with Gardella. On Frazier Curtis falls the nearly impossible job of filling the combined shoes of Cliff Wilson and Chief Boston as blocking back. As leader of the interference and key man on the defense, this year's quarterback will find it difficult to avoid an unfavorable comparison with his predecessors. Other possibilities at this post are Henry Vander Eb, a Sophomore, and Joel Ferris, a converted Jayvee guard...
Died. Samuel Davis Wilson, 57, eight days after he resigned as Mayor of Philadelphia; of cerebral thrombosis and hypertension (high blood pressure); in Philadelphia. Hardworking, harddriving, hard-drinking, red-faced Sam Wilson had been an automobile manufacturer, Sunday blue-law spy, contractor, justice of the peace, crime investigator. Politically he was all things to all men. A violent Wilsonian Democrat (his oldest son-secretary is named Woodrow), in 1933 he was elected Philadelphia's Controller on a coalition ticket, next year supported Democrat George H. Earle for Governor of Pennsylvania, year after that was elected Mayor as a Republican...
...HUGH WILSON O'NEILL...
...Herminia Peralta Dargie died, her devoted Captain Martin (but not Joe Knowland) at her bedside. To Captain Martin she left ("as I would have done had he been my son") one-half of her residuary estate, the other half going to her sister, Mrs. Josefa Peralta Wilson. Taking precedence over these legacies was some $300,000 of cash bequests, which Herminia Dargie had apparently intended to be paid out of Tribune profits...