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1940 All-SEC Football Team
The 1940 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All- Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1940 college football season. Tennessee won the conference. All-SEC selections Ends * Buddy Elrod, Miss. St. (AP-1, INS, UP) * Holt Rast, Alabama (AP-1, INS, UP) *Ed Cifers, Tennessee (AP-2) *Bob Ison, Georgia Tech (AP-2) *Fergie Ferguson, Florida (AP-3) *Harold Newman, Alabama (AP-3) Tackles * Abe Shires, Tennessee (AP-1, INS, UP) *Charles Dufour, Tulane (AP-2, INS) *John Tripson, Miss. St. (AP-2, UP) * Fred Davis, Alabama (AP-1) *John Eibner, Kentucky (AP-3) *John Barrett, LSU (AP-3) Guards *Bob Suffridge, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-1, INS, UP) *John W. Goree, LSU (AP-3, INS, UP) *Hunter Corhern, Miss. St. (AP-1) *Ed Molinski, Tennessee (College Football Hall of Fame) (AP-2) *Edward Hickerson, Alabama (AP-2) *Julius Battista, Florida (AP-3) Centers *Bob Gude, Vanderbilt (AP-1, INS, UP) *Norbert Ackerman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped football, attempts to advance down the field by running with the ball or passing it, while the defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance at least ten yards in four downs or plays; if they fail, they turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the drive. Points are scored primarily by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone for a touchdown or kicking the ball through the opponent's goalposts for a field goal. The team with the most points at the end of a game wins. American football evolved in the United States, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Gude
Henry Paul "Bob" Gude, Jr. (February 25, 1918 – October 6, 1998) was an American football player. He was a prominent center for the Vanderbilt Commodores of Vanderbilt University. Gude was frequently compared to former Commodore greats Carl Hinkle and Pete Gracey. "He was Vanderbilt's main defensive cog." Gude was twice All- SEC. Gude was named to the Fox-Movietone All-American team in 1941. He was drafted in the 14th round of the 1942 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears. While serving in World War II, Gude was a sergeant who played army football under Wallace Wade William Wallace Wade (June 15, 1892 – October 7, 1986) was an American football player and coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at the University of Alabama fro .... See also * 1941 College Football All-America Team References 1918 births 1998 deaths American football centers Chicago Bears players Philadelphia Eagles play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 College Football All-America Team
The 1940 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1940. The nine selectors recognized by the NCAA as "official" for the 1940 season are (1) ''Collier's Weekly'', as selected by Grantland Rice, (2) the Associated Press (AP), (3) the United Press (UP), (4) the All-America Board (AAB), (5) the International News Service (INS), (6) ''Liberty'' magazine, (7) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), (8) ''Newsweek'', and (9) the '' Sporting News'' (SN). Michigan halfback (and Heisman Trophy winner) Tom Harmon, Texas A&M fullback John Kimbrough, and Tennessee guard Bob Suffridge were the only three unanimous first-team All-Americans chosen by all nine official selectors. Consensus All-Americans For the year 1940, the NCAA recognizes nine published All-American teams as "official" designations for purposes of its consensus determina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Press
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its main U.S. rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches. History Formally named United Press Associations for incorporation and legal purposes, but publicly known and identified as United Press or UP, the news agency was created by the 1907 uniting of three smaller news syndicates by the Midwest newspaper publisher E. W. Scripps. It was headed by Hugh Baillie (1890–1966) from 1935 to 1955. At the time of his retirement, UP had 2,900 clients in the United States, and 1,500 abroad. In 1958, it became United Press Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International News Service
The International News Service (INS) was a U.S.-based news agency (newswire) founded by newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1909.Donald Liebenson, "Upi R.i.p." ''Chicago Tribune'', 4 May 2003, accessed 11 May 2011 In May 1958 it merged with rival United Press to become . History Established two years after Hearst-competitor combined three smaller syndicates under his control into |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. The AP has earned 56 Pulitzer Prizes, including 34 for photography, since the award was established in 1917. It is also known for publishing the widely used '' AP Stylebook''. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters, English, Spanish, and Arabic. The AP operates 248 news bureaus in 99 countries. It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merle Hapes
Merle Alison Hapes (May 19, 1919July 18, 1994) was a professional American football fullback in the National Football League (NFL). He played two seasons for the New York Giants (1942, 1946). He and quarterback Frank Filchock were involved in a gambling scandal in 1946 in which they allegedly took bribes to fix the 1946 NFL Championship Game. Since the betting scandal meant he was indefinitely suspended from playing professional football in the United States, he went to Canada to play in the Canadian Football League. He played one season for the Hamilton Tigers in 1949. The Tigers became the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1950, but Hapes was injured for the entire season. For the next two seasons he was an assistant coach with the Tiger-Cats, but returned to play as a backup for two final seasons, winning the Grey Cup with Hamilton in 1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Sinkwich
Frank Francis Sinkwich Sr. (October 10, 1920 – October 22, 1990) was an American football player and coach. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1942 playing for the University of Georgia, making him the first recipient from the Southeastern Conference. In the course of a brief but celebrated career in professional football, Sinkwich was selected for the National Football League Most Valuable Player Award. He coached the Erie (PA) Vets semi-professional football team in 1949. Sinkwich was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954. Early years Sinkwich was of Croat origin. 35 Pacific Northwest Croatian Athletes He was born in |
Jimmy Nelson (American Football)
James Guess Nelson (July 26, 1919 – December 24, 1986) was an American football running back. He played one season in the AAFC for the Miami Seahawks. Nelson played college football at Alabama, where he was part of the 1941 National Championship team. Though selected by the Chicago Cardinals in the 1942 NFL Draft, he did not play professional football until 1946. Instead, he served at March Field during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing .... References 1919 births 1986 deaths People from Live Oak, Florida Players of American football from Florida American football running backs Alabama Crimson Tide football players Miami Seahawks players {{Runningback-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Foxx
Robert Morgan Foxx (September 15, 1917 – June 22, 1975) was an American football player. He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers football team from 1938 to 1940 and was selected by the International News Service as a second-team player on the 1940 College Football All-America Team The 1940 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1940. The nine selectors recognized by the N .... In a poll of ''Knoxville Journal'' readers, Foxx was voted Knoxville's greatest athlete of the first half of the 20th century. He was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 1968. He played minor league baseball in 1941. He also was hired as an assistant football coach at Tennessee in 1941. References External links * 1917 births 1975 deaths American football halfbacks Baseball outfielders Georgia Pre-Flight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Molinski
Ed Molinski (August 20, 1917 – June 26, 1986) was a Hall of Fame college football player for the University of Tennessee. He later became a doctor after being involved in boxing, World War II, and college coaching. Football career Molinski played his high school ball at Massillon Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio, where he played for legendary coach Paul Brown from 1934 to 1936 and was on the 1935 National Championship team. After graduating, he moved on to Tennessee where he played for another legendary coach, Robert Neyland. Molinski was a standout at guard in both high school and college. While at Tennessee, he helped lead the teams there to a 31–2 record and three undefeated regular seasons. He was a member of the 1938 Tennessee team that won the National Championship, and the 1939 team that put together an unscored upon regular season. That year, Molinski was named to several All-American teams. He was also named All-American the following season in 1940 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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