by G.K.Chesterton (2019-06-10 14:00:07)
In reply to: off the front page posted by olson
1. How come I've never heard of this guy? Interestingly enough, sports-reference.com doesn't list him at all.
2. Per the National Football Foundation, In 1962 a panel of sports writers and broadcasters picked an all-time Notre Dame team, and Schwartz was in the backfield along with George Gipp, Jim Crowley and Johnny Lujack.
2. The trading card shows him with 972 yards in 1930 but that must have been a typo and you're right that nobody had more until Al Hunter (Creighton Miller came close in 1943). Even so, 927 would have led ND five (5) times in the 1990's.
Almost as good as Zygmunt Pierre Czarobski.
and also a high Latino population in the 1920s and 1930s. Sadly, ND did not admit African Americans until after World War II.
his ex-teammates: the Penn Quakers.
lot of worthy Jewish kids from obtaining higher education at certain institutions.
Many blue-blood big firms had zero Jewish attorneys until the late 1950s, or even later. That's the main reason why many other firms were almost exclusively Jewish -- rather analogous to the need for historically black colleges.
Some of those stories seem almost unbelievable today -- such as Sandra Day O'Connor, despite graduating third in her Stanford Law School class in 1952, only being offered legal secretary jobs. But they're true.