Word: halfback
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Besides Kenary, Coach Lamar last fall had the distinction of developing a host of new players for Dick Harlow, particularly fleet halfback Hal. Moffie. Others include end Armando Mazzone, tackle Doug Bradlee, center Bill Hickey and guard Dick Guidera, last year's Freshman captain...
...named All-Coast halfback...
...Dear Coach-To be very truthful with you I am uncurtain as to how to begin this letter. My name you probley see from the heading. I am now a student at Ohio State University. I have changed a little sence you last contacted me. . . . I have played halfback on the Ohio State team in 1944, witch won the national championship, witch you probley remmember. And I also played in the East-West game. . . . I am intersed in coming to your university, this of course if you are intersed in my comming down there. . . . Sence coming out of the Army...
...news of the week was the high financing of Georgia's high-stepping Halfback Charlie Trippi. He showed up in Manhattan last week with the modern athlete's helper: a business manager. Trippi wanted to play both baseball and football. He began trading. The Boston Red Sox, who offered him a mere $30,000 to sign a baseball contract, were out of the running from the start. Then Trippi played off the New York Yankees (who own both football and baseball units) against Chicago's football Cardinals...
...Halfback Frank Filchock played almost the entire game with a broken nose. In the final quarter, the weary Giants collapsed. The Bear's great passer Sid Luckman, who had not carried the ball all year, decided to run with it. He plunged up the middle, brushed aside two Giants, went 19 yards for the deciding touchdown. A few minutes later, the Bears cinched the championship with a field goal. Score: Bears 24, Giants...