Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12

through the Iowa team for As yard
Two minutes at tackle in the
Northwestern game completed the
COLLEGIATE career as lineman OF
the big fellow from international
Falls, little town on the Cana
dian border.
AS a fullback, the Bronx played a
total of 268 minutes this season in Con-
ference competition-5S minutes IN me
Northwestern game, So minutes IN the
Indiana game, 80 minutes in the Iowa
game and so minutes each in the WIS
consin and Michigan games.
Nagurski did play tackle III Two nom
Conference games, against Coe ana
Vanderbilt.
Never Took Time Out.
The nerve and stamina of the Bronx.
the power packed in his 205 pounds OF
speed! In % games of bruising punish
ing foot ball, Minnesota did not once
take time out on his account.
Last season in the Iowa game Ma
C1lrski started at fullbacK. Early IN
the first quarter he received a painful
and serious injury. Three rlos were
torn at the iuncture of the spine. Inc
Bronx could not continue in the back
field, because he could not bend over
to receive the pass from center, but ne
piaved all but five minutes of the re-
inainder of the game at tackle. 1t was
such an injury as would have kept an
ordinary player on the bench for weeks,
but not the Bronx. The next week, at
Northwestern, Nagurskl, his SIDE tlgntIy
encased in a protective brace, played
virtually the entire game at tackle.
The most dreaded specter in foot ball,
injury. followed Bronko all last season,
but he refused to let it handicap him.
At Wisconsin, the last game OF the 1923
season, Bronko, his body still heavily
taped. gave one of the greatest per-
fornances of his career to turn in an
almost single-handed victory.
=. Starred at End.
IS An all-America tackle, a fullback
az aIl-America caliber-and what an
end he might have been had not the
foot ball fates blessed Coach Spears
with such a pair of wingmen as Hay
craft and Tanner! Nagurski played one
game at end as a sophomore against
Indiana, and then was shifted to tackle,
where he was badly needed. But he
showed enough stuff at end in that one
game to send the foot ball writer's into
superlatives.
In contrast to his reputation as the
toughest and toughest player in foot
ball-a veritable demon on the gridiron
off the field the Bronx is mild-man-
nered, modest and Self-ehaclng. HIS
speech is soft, almost a drawl. He can
become enthusiastic over foot ball as a
game, but any mention Of himself and
he is reticence itself.
The toughest individual opponent Ma
| gurski ever faced in college foot ball
he confesses, was Baer, right guard at
Michigan in 1927. Baer, rated as an
ordinary lineman until the game with
Minnesota, was the youth, NagurSk1,
playing left tackle, had to take care OF.
The Bronx admits he had his hands full.
Baer, rolled by pre-game references to
the weakness of his side of the Michl-
gan line, played as one inspired.
Calls Baer PLENTY Tough"
"Baer was the slipperiest, fastest guy
Of his weight ever bumped into" Ma
gurski said. And he was plenty tough"
Asked to name the opposing player
whom he believed to be outstanding de-
fensively, Bronko, without hesitation
named Harold Rebholz, fullback of the
Wisconsin team.
"Rebholz had an uncanny knack of
figuring out our plays almost before they
got started" Bronko said, referring, of
course, to the contest two weeks ago
that brought Nagurski's grid career and
MinneSota's season to close. He was
wonder at backing up the line, dead
~ tackler and tough guy to block out
Of any play. He popped up the whole
Wisconsin team with his chatter"
AS an all-around back, Nagurski
hands the laurels to Glasgow of Iowa,
and incidentally termed the Iowa-Min-
neSota game of 1929 the toughest he
has ever played.
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