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...football talent to line up three all-star teams. Now, on the way back, the 6th would be hard-pressed to muster one full team. Some of those lost on Okinawa: Killed-Wisconsin's 1942 All-America end, 1st Lieut. Dave Schreiner; Purdue's 1943 All-America fullback (and leading Big Ten scorer), Corporal Tony Butkovich; Notre Dame's 1942 captain and end, 1st Lieut. George Murphy...
Wounded-California's 1936 All-America center, 1st Lieut. Bob Herwig*; Iowa's 1940 captain and tackle, Major Rade ("Mike") Enich; the New York (Pro) Giants' and ex-Brown University fullback, Lieut. John McLaughry...
...backfield Coach Harlow will have Marvin Jenkis, Herb Fritts, and Pete Harwood as wingbacks, Jack McDonald at quarter, and Bob cowen as fullback. William "Willow". Fisher and Leo Flynn, who won their Varsity H in 1942, are back from the wars and will help round out the team...
Five feet nine inches tall, he weighed 150 Ibs. during the two years (1902, 1903) he played fullback on an oft-defeated Navy team. There are countless versions, with apocryphal trimmings, of the incident in which Halsey starred most conspicuously as "the bull." Navy was being flattened by a beefy, bulldozing V.P.I. team. A middie tackled the bruiser who was carrying the ball for V.P.I., rolled with him across the sidelines and under the bleachers. The crowd cheered the mid die, but he did not get up: thoroughly bulldozed, Bull Halsey was carried off on a stretcher...
Died. Major William N. ("Memphis Bill") Mallory, 43, intelligence officer of the U.S. Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force, Yale's 1923 All-America fullback; in the take-off crash of a plane returning him to the U.S. for discharge (over-age); in Italy. He received the Legion of Merit last December for his famed "Operation Mallory Major," which cut 22 of 24 Po River bridges...