Word: halfback
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...University of Wichita, which annually names an opposition player as the "Outstanding Sportsman of the Year," picked a man who will not face their team this season. The trophy went to Drake's Negro Halfback Johnny Bright, the target of some unsporting slugging last month in the Oklahoma A. & M. game (TIME, Nov. 5). Out of the line-up with a fractured jaw, Bright has played the last game of his college career...
...Princeton side of the stadium, the cheerleaders' megaphones bellowed. As the half ended, the Princeton stands rose, applauding. They were mostly applauding No. 42-Halfback Dick Kazmaier...
Practice for Perfection. The object of this superheated, though ephemeral, acclaim is a 20-year-old senior from Maumee (pop. 5,500), Ohio, who hardly looks the part of a triple-threat halfback. Off the football field, he is undistinguished and indistinguishable from hundreds of other Princeton undergraduates with their crew cuts and carefully sloppy clothes. He does not feel that he must die for dear old Princeton. A serious youth, he rates his serious interests in this order: 1) friends, 2) studies, 3) football. He plays the game because he likes it;† he plays superlatively well because, starting...
...Bruin reconstruction program has been crippled by the mid-season drafting of fullback Vit Piscuskas, the man who sparked the Yale win. So the Bruins have had to rely on the good passing of quarter back Carl Leone and the outside running of sophomore Ken Kessaris, an exception al halfback prospect. Proof of Leone aerial efficacy are the statistics of last week's Rutgers game, which Brown lost 28 to 21: 13 out of 21 passes, for 19 yards...
...freshmen moved into the lead in the third quarter and kept it when end Walt Bregman blocked a Governor Dummer kick and fell on it in the end zone. This time, Fyock circled end for the extra point. The final score came in the fourth period, when halfback Ed Moll bucked over from the 2-yard line. Fyock converted, giving the Yardlings a 20 to 7 advantage...