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...attack, the two men to watch will be tailback Dick Clasby and fullback John Culver. Clasby cannot pass nearly so well as Captain Carroll Lowenstein, but he runs well, even when not accorded interference. Culver didn't lose a yard all afternoon. When confronted with a pile-up at the line, he disdains lowering his head and merely plunging' instead, he rumbles up one side of the heap, and down the other, as though the whole thing were solid ground...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/25/1951 | See Source »

Heidtmann's position as left guard was taken over in early September by Art Pappas, a junior inexperienced in varsity play. Appendicitis pulled Pappas out of pre-season practice last year, and his efforts were confined to kickoffs and jayvee play. Pappas was a fullback with the '53 freshmen, and he may be used as a running guard in some formations. Behind him are former Jayvee Joe Shaw and Si Bunce...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin jr., | Title: Ten Lettermen Return to Weak Line | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

Heidtmann's position as left guard was taken over in early September by Art Pappas, a junior inexperienced in varsity play. Appendicitis pulled Pappas out of pre-season practice last year, and his efforts were confined to kickoffs and jayvee play. Pappas was a fullback with the '53 freshmen, and he may be used as a running guard in some formations. Behind him are former Jayvee Joe Shaw and Si Bunce...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin jr., | Title: Ten Lettermen Return to Weak Line | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

Princeton's Charlie Caldwell, voted 1950's top U.S. coach, says that he really learned what modern football was all about on Oct. 25, 1924, a day of massive frustration. Charlie, then a fullback, spent that afternoon backing up the line of a good Princeton team pitted against Knute Rockne's celebrated Four Horsemen. Notre Dame won, 12-0, and it was probably a merciful score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Single Winger | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Roberto de Vicenzo is a handsome, 28-year-old Argentine with the shoulders of a fullback, the rhythmic golf swing of a Ben Hogan, and a powerful urge to hit the big money of the U.S. golf circuit. Last year, after whipping the best of the competition at home, he packed his bags, set out for Britain, where he was runner-up to Bobby Locke in the British Open, went on to win the open championships of Belgium, Holland and France. Last week, in his third crack at the U.S. circuit, Golfer de Vicenzo gave 15 other top pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Argentine Invader | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

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