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Mayhem & Haw. In Murfreesboro, Tenn., Herman Robertson sued Clyde Hunter for $1,500 damages, declared that Hunter had bitten off his lip, and that consequently his plow mule no longer understood his directions...
Speaking of Yale, Harlow said, "I know everything about Herman Hickman and he's a good coach." McCoy added, "Hickman may look easy going, but remember he played at Tennessee where they like them rough, tough, and nasty." As for the new football rules making interior linemen eligible as pass receivers Harlow whistled and said, "You know, this changes the whole game of football. This makes a man to man defense absolutely impossible...
Yale had to go farther afield for a football coach to replace Howie Odell, who quit for more money at the University of Washington. The Eli choice: able, 300-lb. Herman Hickman, 36, the man behind the Army lines. As Earl Blaik's assistant, Tennessee-born Hickman was as proud as a lion tamer of his viciously charging cadet lines (he called them affectionately "Mah Rowdies...
...Pirates are authorities on bad luck. Last year the club finished in the cellar. The trouble was more than peanut-eating: there had been too much all-night poker and drinking. Since then Manager Billy Herman had resigned, and several troublemakers were traded. Now the club is under the firm hand of Billy Meyer, who had managed the crack Yankee farm team in Kansas City, where he trained most of the top present-day Yankees...
Finally, at 9:45, the twins flashed the ground nine times to announce that they were going to land. Said Herman, "It wasn't very healthy up there in the dark in something that didn't have a motor in it." The brothers put their plane into a dive. At 10:05 - twelve hours and 52 minutes after the take-off - they glided to a landing. They had topped the American duration record by nearly three hours...