Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas last week expecting to wind up a perfect season in a blaze of touchdowns. Instead, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, it was all but charged off its All-America feet by a fiery, accurate Southern Methodist team, minus its injured star Doak Walker but brilliantly led by Halfback Kyle Rote, that fought as if it were defending the Alamo...
...With the poise and precision of a well-trained ballet troupe, they pranced through their T-formation tricks. Tommy Thompson, Greasy's aging quarterback, who admits to 31 but is nearer 34, handled the ball as deftly as a shell-game operator at a county fair. An old halfback from L.S.U., 2O5-lb. Steve Van Buren, slithered past Giant tacklers for 53 yards to break his own league record for ground gained in a single season (his new mark: 1,050 yards). The Eagles cut the Giants down to size...
Their foe in Pasadena on Jan. 2 would be California, the Pacific Coast Conference's all-conquering champions, who got a scare from arch-rival Stanford last week. Stanford was ahead, 14-12, in the third period, when Jack Swaner, California's star halfback, began to run wild. Final score: California 33, Stanford...
...Haven, Harvard and Yale fought the battle of the Ivy League cellar. The man who covered himself with most glory: Yale's popular Negro captain and star halfback, Levi Jackson, who scored Yale's first two touchdowns. After Harvard was crushed, 29-6, Levi, with an assist from other players, toted Yale's 300-lb. Coach Herman Hickman off the field on his shoulders...
...Crimson soccer players were selected to the All-New England League team picked by league coaches yesterday. Halfback Horrick Drake and forward Charley Weiss made the first squad. Fullback Mike Scully and forward Jon Spivak were named to the alternate team...