Word: quarterbacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as it was beginning its final week of preseason practice a dumbfounded Varsity football squad learned yesterday that Bob Haley, captain and star quarterback, has been declared ineligible by the Athletic Committee on a charge of receiving financial aid in return for his gridiron services...
...Wednesday evening, to take part in the competition for places on the sophomore and junior teams in the Hioks Prizo Debate. The time was when according to the HArvard CRIMSON, "The tricks and traps of the logicians were as many as keenly appreciated as the generalship of an astute quarterback." Today even the bait of $50 in prizes cannot lure the wary undergraduate, fearful for his reputation as a man about town and socialite, out of his liar of sophistication...
Before the turn of the century college debating was an activity followed with interest by the student body. The tricks and traps of the logicians were as keenly appreciated as the generalship of an astute quarterback. Sanders Theatre and Symphony Hall were the scenes of the verbal battles. Interest thereafter declined steadily and the turnouts for debates in the middle twenties--even today--taxed the heart of the most courageous orator. Realizing the problem the officers of the Council and the director inaugurated an ambitious program of radio debates. The first long distance broadcast was in 1928 with Oxford. Since...
...sugar bowl containing two little girls dressed in the colors of Temple and Tulane, was dragged onto the field to be greeted by a Father New Orleans in cavalier's costume. Neatest play of an exciting, well-played contest came in the second quarter when Tulane's Quarterback Mc-Daniel caught a Temple kickoff, ran to the right to draw tacklers, then threw a lateral pass to his teammate Monk Simons who scampered 75 yd. for a touchdown. Two more Tulane touchdowns in the last half outweighed Temple's early lead...
...material wasn't there. . . . I will always remember every fellow who played on the 1934 Knox team as hard workers. . . . Nine of the regulars didn't even have any high-school football experience. . . . I'll never forget the day one of our little fellows, a quarterback, came around with a new scoring play. . . . A little later, during practice, he was going hellity hoot. . . . As he dashed down the field, he stepped into a water bucket...