Word: quarterbacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that had gone over his head. Auburn (Alabama Polytechnic Institute) has an extraordinary football team, called "Tigers" or "Plainsmen." Its coach is Chet Wynne, Notre Dame fullback in 1921. Captain and left halfback is Jimmy Hitchcock, baldish, small, fast, whom Auburn publicists like to compare with famed Red Grange. Quarterback "Ripper" Williams is a clever arrogant field general. The Tigers have a chinless end, David ("Gump") Ariail, who may make the All-American, a stuttering sophomore end named Bennie Fenton. So far this season. Auburn has made 255 points to its opponent's 34. Last week Auburn emerged from...
...unbeaten school teams in the East, the most devastating this year is probably Choate, coached by Jack Maher. who teaches his team Warner football with spinners, reverses, double and triple passes. Choate's quarterback and captain, a Jack Stonebraker of Hagerstown. Md., is so averse to all forms of effort that he sometimes walks across the goal line to make a touchdown if there are no tacklers near him. Choate's guards are Cubans: Miguel Mendoza y Kindelan and Eneas Antonio Freyre de Andrede. Right tackle is Oilman Joshua Cosden's son Joshua Jr. Last week Choate...
...want to compile an All-American football team, a good way is to start with the best quarterback of the year. If anyone had been sufficiently enthusiastic to begin making up an All-American this way last fortnight, the first name might have been Orville Mohler, of Southern California. Quick, wiry and comparatively light (166 lb.), a licensed airplane pilot, president of the U. S. C. student body, Orville Mohler may not be on the All-American teams compiled at the season's close, but only because of an injury to his spine which closed his football career...
...Crusader's stellar backs, upon which the team relied for its victories over Rutgers, Detroit, Maine, Providence, and New River, reported on the sick list, the passing attack which has frightened other teams may prove an ineffective threat for Captain Hageman's men. Rovinski, however, who is the quarterback of the purple-shirted team, will not be an easy man to stop...
Vidal, the Army quarterback, made a touchdown in the first three minutes of the first period after a brilliant run of 70 yards. Travis Brown scored a point for the Army on the kick. Making the score...