Word: quarterbacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enacted last week in the editorial office of the Spectator, undergraduate daily of Columbia University. At his desk was Editor Reed Harris, a dark youth of studious mien but tall, well setup. Around him stood some of his associates. Into the room, glowering, strode burly Ralph Hewitt, captain and quarterback of the football team, closely followed by even burlier William McDuffee, the team's centre. Ralph Hewitt had a copy of the Spectator in his hand. He was smoldering with anger...
This year Michigan's famed forward-passing quarterback, Benny Friedman, has been a Yale coach, showed Yale backs how to throw short, quick, flat passes. Yale has a heavy, inexperienced line and almost a plethora of seasoned, versatile backs. Best back and captain is 144-lb. Albert J. ("Albie") Booth Jr. whose father works in a New Haven gun factory...
...looks like his father, a Harvard 1902 Boston cotton broker and Harvard trustee who likes squash, tennis, golf. Like many of Harvard's famed athletes-Ben and Bill Ticknor, Charlie Cunningham, recent Hallowells and Saltonstalls-Barry Wood was schooled at Milton, where his football coach was onetime Harvard Quarterback Charlie Buell. A year out West made him rugged enough for college football, which he says he plays because enough hard exercise makes it easier to study. Other games which he plays for the same reason are tennis, baseball, hockey. In tennis, he was good enough to play...
Radio announcer of that game for Columbia Broadcasting Co. was staccato Edward ("Ted") Husing. Sharing with many football experts an impression that Wood's strategies were not such as could be expected from a Phi Beta Kappa quarterback, Announcer Husing described his play as "putrid." Harvard men wrote letters of protest. Other listeners thought it a particularly flagrant example of two failings common among sports announcers -using words without knowing what they mean, criticizing instead of reporting. Harvard's Athletic Director William Bingham wrote to President William Paley of Columbia Broadcasting Co. to say that Announcer Husing might...
...Captain Wood, who will make the final appearance of his remarkable career as Harvard quarterback today. Watch his passing and kicking...