Word: kimbrough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grads, like old grads everywhere, had no use for a loser-and their memories were short. In 1939, Homer had been a hero at A. & M. He had a wonder team that year, starring "Jarrin' Jawn" Kimbrough, which was voted the nation's best. In five years, his Aggies had played in four Bowl games. Box office was good at the campus stadium. Last year, when old grads began yelling for his scalp, Homer, who has coached at Texas A. & M. for 14 years, calmly told them to put up or shut up; his $10,000-a-year...
Just which league was better no one yet knew. All-America had a prize crew of ex-All-Americans, such top-salaried stars as Chicago's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch; Los Angeles' "Jarrin' " John Kimbrough; Brooklyn's thread-needle passer Glen Dobbs; New York's flat-footed Frank Sinkwich; San Francisco's 245-lb. fullback Norm Standlee. So far the old league wasn't speaking to the new, though they played in three of the same cities-New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Until their feuding stopped, pro football would have no World...
FRANKLIN S. KIMBROUGH Memphis...
Charming is a much overworked little word, but it is nevertheless the most fitting description of "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay." It is definitely a charming picture. Paramount has clothed the Emily Kimbrough-Cornelia Skinner biography with a trail little plot, but no one seems to mind very much...
With this star-studded backfield and a 220-lb. line, the All-Army Westerners set out this week to break up the deadly passing of Redskin Sammy Baugh. They started off like Commandos: on the second scrimmage of the game, Kimbrough ran off tackle 58 yards for a touchdown. But the powerful Redskins had too much ammunition for a bunch of soldiers with only three weeks' practice. They blasted them from the air (23 completed passes), mowed them down on the ground, kicked two perfect field goals-one from the 24-yd. line, another from the 27. Score: Redskins...