Word: halfback
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Sensible Observation. This week, when the two quarterbacks squared off before an S.R.O. crowd of 24,218, the flea bit the bear and put him on the run. LeBaron sent Halfback Bruce Orvis plunging over for the first touchdown and a mighty roar shook the bowl. Then the game degenerated into a huffing & puffing contest between ill-conditioned athletes...
...Kenary, defensive halfback for three years, is considering an offer to play pro football for the Chicago Bears. Yesterday afternoon the Bears drafted him in the twenty-eighth round of the first National-American Football League Draft. This merely gives the Chicago team the exclusive rights to dicker for Kenary's services...
...open market, a flashy high-school halfback came to as much as $10,000. An Ohio teen-ager got bids from 61 different colleges. One offer sounded like the prize list of a radio quiz show: board, room, tuition, books, free laundry, $300-a-month spending money, clothes, free transportation to & from games for his family, $5,000 in the bank in his senior year...
Died. Charles E. Brickley, 58, Harvard ('14), an All America football great and most spectacular dropkicker of them all; of a heart attack: in his Manhattan hotel room. In his greatest day, Halfback Brickley kicked all of Harvard's points in the spectacular 15-5 victory over Yale in 1913, in three years, made a total of 30 touchdowns and 34 field goals for the Crimson. He found life a tougher game to play, tried pro-football, brokerage, in later years wound up as an advertising salesman...
Charles E. Brickley '15, three time All-America halfback, died December 28 in New York of a heart attack. He was 58 years...