Word: fullbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Thomas, 19, lectures himself before each attempt ("Now, John, don't duck your head into the bar"), takes his own advice so well that no one thinks his best jump of 7 ft. 3¼ in. is his peak. Pole Vaulter Don ("Tarzan") Bragg, 25, has hauled his fullback's body (6 ft. 3 in., 197 lbs.) up 15 ft. 9¼ in. Broad Jumper Ralph Boston, 21, holds the unofficial world record of 26 ft. 11½ in., will likely get his strongest competition from Germany's Dr. Manfred Steinbach, 27, whose best jump...
Jerry Wadsworth played fullback at Yale ('27), as an upstate New Yorker served ten years in the state legislature. He moved to Washington in 1945, held a variety of executive posts (e.g., E.G.A., Civil Defense) before joining Lodge. At the U.N., affable James Wadsworth was in steady demand at parties to strum his guitar and sing rich-baritone folk songs. Often he included a personal favorite, Stormy Weather, which he now, after two years of negotiating with the Russians, wryly calls "my disarmament song...
...Lanphear (6 ft. 2 in., 222 Ibs.), gained 42 yds. and sent the lineman limping off the field. In the fourth quarter, Schloredt countermanded Coach Jim Owens' order to punt when he had the ball on his own 16 with fourth down and one, rammed like a fullback to make the first down that started another touchdown drive. Final score: Washington 44, Wisconsin...
...hockey's brightest new star is a baby-faced youngster with blond curly hair: 20-year-old Bobby Hull of the Chicago Black Hawks. His fullback's legs let him flash to a halt in a swirl of shaved ice, start again in a burst of speed that may well be the most explosive in the National Hockey League. He is solid enough (5 ft. 10½ in., 190 Ibs.) to hold off a defense man with one thick arm while stickhandling the puck with the other. And when he slaps one of his lefthanded shots, the puck...