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Sophomore MacKenzie seemed to have no overpowering reason for wanting to be a regent, but Coach Sheeketski did, A onetime Notre Dame star halfback (1931-32), he had gone on to coaching at Holy Cross, served with the FBI during World War II, arrived at Nevada in 1947. There he did well. He got enough money from the Reno Downtown Boosters Club to attract some first-rate players, was able to launch Nevada into big-time football...
Major General Emmett O'Donnell Jr., 44, last week left California for the Far East, where two B-29 groups of his 15th Air Force are being placed at Stratemeyer's disposal for use in Korea. A halfback on West Point's 1927 football team, O'Donnell began his World War II career with a bitter delaying action, in which he and a handful of other U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to India. He became operations officer of the Tenth Air Force in India and later leader of the Twentieth...
...Washington for the annual celebrity golf tourney, Jim Thorpe, 62, famed Carlisle Indians halfback, Olympic track star and onetime major-league (N.Y. Giants) outfielder, wound a bulging arm around Texas' Babe Didrikson Zaharias, 36. Photographers caught a good shot of two of the half-century's outstanding athletes...
Though noted for his basketball abilities, the 47-year-old Coach Shepard has had over 20 years experience as a football coach. He was varsity halfback on the North Carolina team in 1922, his senior year, and was later freshman coach and scout for the Tarhoels...
Williams, who graduated from Pitt in 1931, played right halfback in Jack Sutherland's single-wing system. He served as Sutherland's backfield coach in 1937 and 1938 and later in the same capacity at the University of Florida. From 1941 to 1947 he worked with T and Split-T formations at Temple University, but has coached a single-wing backfield at his alma mater for the past two seasons...