Pro Football's Rise and the Two-League Debate
The piece argues stronger pro football demand supports two major leagues, cites Giants and Browns crowds, notes potential 16-team structure, and praises the Blanchard and Davis backfield pairing. It also recalls historic backfield duos from various colleges and recalls Bob Neyland’s return to Tennessee.
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New York Giants
Yankees
Dodgers
Polo Grounds
Cleveland Browns
Los Angeles
Giants
Blanchard
Davis
Army
al Smith
Carlisle
Indians
Thorpe
Guyon
Harvard
Mann
Brickley
Yale
Coy
Philbin
Michigan
Heston
Boss Weeks
Cornell
Pfann
Raw
Pennsylvania
Hollenback
Manier
Stanford
Grayson
Hamilton
Notre Dame
Blanchara
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Bob Neyland
Tennessee
General Neyland
Neyland
South
Wally Butt
Georgia
Alonzo Stagg
Tug Wilson
Big Nine
Amos Alonzo Stagg
Stagg
College of the Pacific
Northwestern University
Stage
Atomic Energy Control Commission
Domestic
David E. Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Truman
Sumner Pike
Lubee
Lewis L. Strauss
New York City
President Truman
Lilienthal
R. F. Bacher
Ithaca
N. Y
W. W. Waymack
Des Moines
Iowa
Rickford Ray Schmidt
Ricky
James H. Case Sr
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
James H. Case Jr
Washington and Jefferson College
Everett N. Case
Colgate University
Everett
Woodridge
N. J
Buster
Jan C. Smuts
Union of South Africa
United Nations General Assembly
Emmanuel Shinwell
King Kwong
United States
Western Canada
Canadian Army
New Yorker
Hamburg
Max Brauer
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
Brill
Miami
Fla
Sweden
G.L
Bremen
Germany
G.i.s
Patrick J. Moriarty
Shakopee
Minn
G.ls
Stateville Penitentiary
Joliet
New York
China
Italy
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
U. S
UNRRA
Las Vegas
Richard Brasno
Cyril Stewart
War Bride
United Nations
Jean White
U.N
Grantland Rice