Word: quarterbacking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Every Monday quarterback knows that Grange could never have wriggled into the nation's headlines without Britton. Neither could have Harmon without Evashevski. Yet last week, just as they canonized Illinois' Red Grange 15 years before, hero-worshiping U. S. football fans spread a halo around Tom Harmon, Michigan's hula-hipped halfback who put on the best one-man show of the 1940 season, hung up a conference record of 33 touchdowns in three years' competition...
Minnesota is accustomed to good football teams. The State is full of husky farm boys who make powerful linemen, powerful backs. When Minnesota gets a smart quarterback, to boot, it invariably has a great team. This year Minnesota has such a quarterback: Bobby Paffrath...
Dick Harlow: Charley Spreyer played as fine a game Saturday as any back I've ever had at Harvard, but don't forget Ted Lyman. That boy really laid some of those Bruins up in the cheap seats. We've got another quarterback, and there's nobody in the world I'm prouder of than Ted Lyman...
Blanchard at Quarterback...
...starting lineup was announced last night with Dick Harlow indicating that Loren MacKinney and Bill Barnes will answer the opening whistle at quarterback and left end respectively, Bill Brown will continue to operate in the bucking berth as Captain Joe Gardella remains in cold storage...