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1941 All-Big Six Conference Football Team
The 1941 All-Big Six Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Six Conference teams for the 1941 college football season. The selectors for the 1941 season included the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press (UP). The 1941 Missouri Tigers football team won the Big Six championship, was ranked No. 7 in the final AP Poll, and placed five players on the first team: quarterback Harry Ice (AP-1, UP-1); halfback Bob Steuber (AP-1, UP-1); tackle Norville Wallach (AP-1, UP-1); guard Robert Jeffries (AP-1, UP-1); and center Darold Jenkins (AP-1, UP-1). The 1941 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team finished second in the conference and placed two players on the first team: halfback Dale Bradley (AP-1, UP-1) and guard George Abel (AP-1, UP-1). All-Big Six selections Backs * Harry Ice, Missouri (AP-1, UP-1 B (College Football Hall of Fame) * Bob Steuber, Missouri (AP-1, UP-1 B * Dale Bradley, Nebraska (AP-1, UP-1 B * Jac ... [...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] |
Big Six Conference
The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, and Washington University in St. Louis. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an original member of the MVIAA, while maintaining joint membership in the Western Conference (now the Big Ten Conference). The conference was dissolved in 1996. Its membership at its dissolution consisted of the University of Nebraska, Iowa State University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, the University of Missouri, the University of Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State University. The Big Eight’s headquarters were located in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1994, the Big Eight and the Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 College Football Season
The 1941 college football regular season was the 73rd season of college football, intercollegiate football in the United States. Competition included schools from the 1941 Big Ten Conference football season, Big Ten Conference, the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the Big Six Conference, the Southern Conference, the Southwestern Conference, and numerous smaller conferences and independent programs. The teams ranked highest in the final 1941 NCAA football rankings, Associated Press poll in December 1941 were: # 1941 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Minnesota, under head coach Bernie Bierman, compiled a perfect 8–0 record, won the Big Ten championship, and was ranked No. 1. It was Minnesota's fifth national championship in eight years. # 1941 Duke Blue Devils football team, Duke compiled a 9–0 record in the regular season, won the Southern Conference championship, and was ranked No. 2. # 1941 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, ... [...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] |
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] |
1941 Missouri Tigers Football Team
The 1941 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1941 college football season. The team compiled an 8–2 record (5–0 against Big 6 opponents), won the Big 6 championship, lost to Fordham in the 1942 Sugar Bowl, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 226 to 39, and was ranked No. 7 in the final AP Poll. Don Faurot was the head coach for the seventh of 19 seasons. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri. The team's leading scorer was junior halfback Bob Steuber with 67 points. Five Missouri players were selected by the United Press as first-team players on the 1941 All-Big Six Conference football team: Steuber; senior quarterback Harry Ice; senior center Darold Jenkins; senior guard Robert Jeffries; and senior tackle Norville Wallach. Three others (quarterback Maurice Wade, end Bert Ekern, and tackle Robert Brenton) were name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Ice
Harry Ice (August 20, 1918 – October 16, 1997) was a record-setting halfback for the University of Missouri Tigers football team, and a long-time member of the Tigers' Athletic Department. Harry Ice grew up in Kansas City and attended Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri from 1936 to 1939. At Wentworth, he was on the football, basketball, track, and baseball teams, captaining both the basketball and track squads. He was named the school's best all-around athlete in 1938. He entered the University of Missouri in 1939, and did not initially go out for football. But legendary coach Don Faurot spotted Ice on the intramural fields, while playing for Beta Theta Pi, and convinced him to try out for the varsity. In 1940 and 1941, Ice established himself as one of the Tigers' top all-time running backs. In 1941, "Slippery Ice", as he was known, set a number of Missouri records as a member of Faurot's first split-T team that led the nation in rushing. Ice's records in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Steuber
Robert James Steuber (October 25, 1921November 29, 1996) was an American football halfback who has the distinction of having played NCAA college football after playing professional football in the NFL. Steuber played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, Steuber was a standout on his high school football team. He attended the University of Missouri, where he quickly became one of the country's most productive runners and scoring threats. He was second in the country in 1942 with more than 1,000 yards of rushing. Steuber was drafted by the NFL's Chicago Bears and played one game for the team, appearing as a substitute on September 26, 1943 in the Green Bay Packers' home opener, which ended in a 21-21 tie. The next day, Steuber entered the United States Navy and was transferred to DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana for pre-flight training. Despite having gone from amateur statu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darold Jenkins
Darold Jenkins (June 6, 1919 – September 16, 1986) was an American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976. Biography Jenkins first joined Don Faurot's Missouri Tigers as a fullback, spending most of his time on the bench. By mid way through his junior year, Jenkins had taken over as the starting center and went on to earn All Big Six Conference honors that season. In 1941, as a senior, Jenkins captained Missouri to a Big Six Conference Championship and an appearance in the Sugar Bowl against the Fordham Rams. Jenkins again earned All Big Six Conference honors and became the first Tiger to earn consensus All-America honors. After college, Jenkins was a bomber pilot in World War II. Flying his 27th mission, he was shot down and spent 17 months in a Nazi Germany POW camp. Upon his discharge from the military, Jenkins went to law school, becoming a practicing attorney in 1952, eventually working for the Missouri State Highway Commission. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 Nebraska Cornhuskers Football Team
The 1941 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nebraska in the Big Six Conference during the 1941 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Biff Jones, the team compiled a 4–5 record (3–2 against conference opponents), tied for second place in the Big Six, and also outscored opponents by a total of 93 to 81. Two Nebraska players were selected by the United Press as first-team players on the 1941 All-Big Six Conference football team: junior halfback Dale Bradley and senior guard George Abel. Senior tackle C. Herndon was named to the second team. Nebraska was ranked at No. 58 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska. Before the season Nebraska was fresh off its first ever bowl appearance, a well-fought 21-13 loss to Stanford in the 1941 Rose Bowl, and started th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Jacobs
Jack Jacobs (August 7, 1919 – January 12, 1974), nicknamed "Indian Jack", was an American and Canadian football player in the National Football League and Western Interprovincial Football Union. He was a charter member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, inducted in 1963. Early life Jacobs was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, and played high school football at Muskogee High School. He was popularly known as "Indian Jack" because he was a Creek man. College career Jacobs played college football at the University of Oklahoma. Considered a phenomenal all-round player, Jack started at both quarterback and punter, where he averaged 47.84 yards per kick in 1940 (which remains an OU record) and finished his collegiate career with a career average of 42.10. Jacobs accumulated the most offense yardage in 1940/1941 (junior & senior years). As a defensive back, Jacobs is tied with seven other players for the record number of interceptions in a game (3) (1941 OU vs. Marquette). P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Miller
Ralph H. Miller (March 9, 1919 – May 15, 2001) was an American college basketball coach, a head coach for 38 years at three universities: Wichita (now known as Wichita State), Iowa, and Oregon State. With an overall record of , his teams had losing records only three times. Prior to his final season, he was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame on Miller played college football and basketball at the University of Kansas. His performance on the football team led to him being drafted in the 1942 NFL Draft, but he chose to serve in the military instead of playing in the NFL. Early life Born and raised in Chanute, Kansas, Miller was a standout athlete in high school and college. At Chanute High School, he won letters in football, track, basketball, golf and tennis. Miller was an all-state basketball player for three years and set the state record in the low hurdles in 1937. He was all-state three consecutive years in football and basketball. In college at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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