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Trenet is just 30, six feet tall, and built like a halfback. His creamy tenor occasionally softens to a bedroom whisper, but usually it is roguish and rolling. As he sings, he twists and crumples a battered felt hat. That was how he began ten years ago in Paris' Bohemian cabaret Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof). Soon he was earning more on the radio and in the music halls than Chevalier. During the war he sang for French prisoners in Germany. He looks well-fed; as he explains it, "there is always a crust...
Keystone of the Elis' attack, which has produced the astounding total of 138 first downs in the season to date, is 17-year-old Art Dakos, quarterback and passing sensation from Lowell, with Bill Penn, light-footed halfback, supplying the break-away runs. Walker does most of the kicking, and effectively enough to add one more item to the Eli offensive punch...
...quarterback and guard, into a center; he moved Russ Deal from guard to tackle. Burly Howie Brown, thrice wounded in Europe, showed up just after the Michigan game, and plugged a hole at guard. Another ex-G.I, All-America End Pete Pihos, became a pile-driving fullback. Negro Halfback George Taliaferro, a freshman, blossomed fast under Bo's compelling...
After due seasoning on Wild West stories and his father's football yarns, Doc made his high-school football debut. A rival halfback ran straight over him for a touchdown. By the following year, when he transferred to St. Stanislaus Prep at Bay St. Louis, Miss., he knew how to tackle. On his 14th birthday, he played fulltime for the Stanislaus Rockachaws in New Orleans' Toy Bowl game...
...list includes: General Dwight Eisenhower, a 1912 halfback; Major General Vernon Pritchard, the pitching end of the Pritchard-to-Merillat team, a 1914 quarterback; Brigadier General La Verne ("Blondie") Saunders, a 1926-27 tackle; Brigadier General Charles Born, a 1927 All-America...