Word: mackinney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type and with a gift for passing. McNichol, in fact, was the only genuine offensive weapon that the team had to offer. In order to produce some semblance of the outside threat which the halfbacks could not provide, canny Dick Harlow devised a series of endaround plays featuring Loren MacKinney. Rugged Defense For McNicol...
That was the year of Captain Joe Gardella, Franny Lee, and Charley Spreyer, when the blossoming line which featured Chub Peabody, Loren MacKinney, Dick Pfister, Tom Gardiner, and Vern Miller was coming into its own. Remnants of the class of 1945--and there are many--will be eager to relate the 14 to 0 pasting handed the Bulldogs in 1941, when Peabody, later to be named on everybody's All-America list, played the entire game with charley-horses in both legs, and still was the bulwark of the Crimson forward wall...
Among the former pupils of the Harlow system who visited the Varsity locker room to congratulate the winning eleven were former ends Bill Barnes and Loren Mackinney, and Gordy Lyle, who brought grief to the Princeton cause in 1942 when he snatched a pass from Jack Comerford with less than a minute to play and scored a touchdown which gave Harvard a 19 to 14 victory...
Ever since Dick Harlow bade a teary farewell at the close of the 1941 season to the best Varsity line Soldiers Fields has seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...
...during the past week. Wally Trumbull, Bill Jenkins, Ken Brown, and Walt Coulson have shown the most talent among the prospective booters. Coulson, Freshman baseball star, was moved up to the first squad as an end this week, and thus may follow in the footsteps of the famed Loren MacKinney, first string wingman on the 1940 team, who moved into the backfield to get off 65 yard kicks...