Word: halfback
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...Rensselaer, Charlie Halleck led a pleasantly Tarkingtonian life, hunting coons and skunks in the nearby Kankakee marsh, mowing neighbors' lawns for spending money, playing halfback on the high school football team and run sheep run in the meadow back of his home. In political fact. Halleck was running as soon as he learned to walk. He cannot remember when he first decided to spend his life in pursuit of high office. But his ambition was plain for all to see. Said Rensselaer High School's yearbook...
...Bellino, a blocky catcher, was the leading Navy batsman, rattling out four hits in five tries and driving home four runs. Bellino is a potential All-America as a football halfback, and hails from nearby Winchester. Harvard originally had designs upon him, but he is one of that regrettably large group of local athletes who did not measure up to College admission standards...
...retiring Earl Blaik. Army went to its own practice field for his successor: Dale Hall. 34, for the past three seasons defensive backfield coach under Blaik. Hall, whose bespectacled, scholarly look belies his record as an all-round athlete, was an all-American basketball player at West Point, played halfback on Army teams of the Blanchard-Davis era, resigned his infantry commission to take up coaching...
Answering a total of 15 questions in a little less than an hour, the President was at his best in paying personal tribute to men he has known-and most admired. One of these, said onetime West Point Halfback Eisenhower, was retiring Army Football Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik: "I've never known a man in the athletic world who has been a greater inspiration." Another was wartime colleague Winston Churchill: He was "great in the carrying of responsibility . . . You had to hang on tight to your basic conviction because the first thing you knew he would shove...
Moreover, a new social order has been created by these devices. Athletes live apart from the rest of the herd, they eat, sleep, and play apart. What is worse, a cult of adoration has built up around the great hockey star or the speedy halfback. Boston newspapers follow their every move, urchins scuffle for their signatures outside the gates of Dillon, and sultry Hub temptresses sigh with desire at their Olympian exploits...