Word: arbor
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...Arbor, Mich...
...Harmon shrugged his shoulders. Unlike many big-time college football stars who major in physical education, he has primed himself for a radio career. As part of his radio course, he had conducted a payless 15-minute Saturday-morning sport program over a local Ann Arbor station. Last week, while he was being named for all the All-Americas in the land and showered with all the post-season trophies "for the most outstanding player of the year," Tom Harmon was far more excited over an invitation to appear for pay as guest star with Comedian Eddie Cantor...
Michigan had Tom Harmon. Pennsylvania had Francis Xavier Reagan. Last week, as undefeated Penn went to Ann Arbor to tackle unbeaten Michigan, sportswriters set the stage for a Duel of the Century between two great halfbacks. Reagan's spectacular record this autumn almost matched Harmon's: ten touchdowns to Harmon's eleven, 156 yards gained a game to Harmon's 158. Reagan's superb punting, passing and running had made Penn a candidate for the mythical U. S. football championship...
While jubilant Michigan alumni monopolized dinner conversation wherever they happened to be, 2,000 homecoming grads gathered at Ann Arbor that night for a farewell banquet to 69-year-old Fielding H. ("Hurry-Up") Yost, Michigan's Grand Old Man, who will retire next spring after 40 years as football coach and athletic director. Through tear-dimmed eyes, they reminisced about Yost's immortal point-a-minute footballers who, during the first five years of the century, lost only one game out of 57, rolled up 2,821 points to their opponents' 42; the 13 All-Americans...
During Yost's 40 years at Ann Arbor, Michigan football teams have played 308 games, won 237, lost 54, tied 17. Yet Fielding Yost last week remembered not only the full name and graduation year of all his stars (37 of Michigan's 40 captains were at his farewell dinner), but also some definite play that immortalized each one. He even recalled the exact spot on which each play was started-and no one challenged his memory...