Word: quarterback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brown football team choose Willie Davis as right tackle, and Bill Henry as quarterback on its 1949 all-opponents team it was revealed yesterday. The backfield of the squad, besides Henry, is composed of Bill Kazmater and George Sella of Princeton at the halfbacks, and Bob Spears of Yale at fullback...
...half-frozen field at the Polo Grounds they put on a stirring show 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...
George Chandler, 20 year old quarterback from Bay Village, Ohio, will captain the Princeton varsity football team in 1950, it was announced last night at Princeton's annual football dinner...
Chandler, a junior who weighs 192 pounds, has been the Tigers' starting quarterback for two seasons and has been rated an outstanding blocking back...
These distinguished members of the company of educated men feel that their Harvard diplomas qualify them as expert football critics. Consequently they come with a flask on Saturday afternoons and spend two hours impressing their wives by second-guessing the quarterback. Then they go to a cocktail party and slander the coach. Then they go home and sleep it off. And that...