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...Marietta College to Yale, including W. & J.'s 1922 Rose Bowl team. His pros regard him as something special-a coach who mixes with his men, plays cards with them, kids them, takes their kidding, fines them and is even ready to tussle with them. Says big Al Wistert, his All-America tackle: "You can't help playing hard for a guy like that...
...field at West Point, Blaik's offensive unit blocked against Michigan defense until it began to look as if Army was going to play a one-game schedule in 1949. From studying movies, Blaik learned that 230-lb. Alvin Wistert, Michigan's All-America tackle, stood solid as a steel lamppost against high blocks but fell "like a shock of wheat" before low ones. On another field, Blaik's defense unit drilled against Michigan pass plays until even the bystanders got tired of watching...
Michigan, too, made news in choosing its 1949 football captain. He is ex-G.I. Alvin Wistert, a tackle...
...most devastating fullback plays in the Crisler repertoire is the bucklateral series which he developed at Princeton and which is now being revived with considerable success there by Charlie Caldwell. Clee O'Donnell, 1946 Crimson captain who played first-string wingback against Chappuis, Wistert, & Company in the 35 to 7 rout at Ann Arbor in 1942, says Michigan ruined the Crimson that day on buck-lateral plays...
Older Faces. Bob Chappuis is by no means the oldest collegiate player around: Michigan also has 31-year-old Tackle Alvin Wistert, brother of two former All-Americas. And New York University has a halfback who is 33. At Mississippi, 23-year-old End Barney Poole, once an Army star, is playing his sixth year of varsity football, by grace of weird eligibility rules. At Iowa City, infants on the sidelines watch their fathers laboring through practice. Ten men on Iowa's squad are married...