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Show Earl "Powerhouse" Pomeroy INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE: By David J. Walsh "A man named Jonas who terrorizes at center is another Armstrong product who gets on the third team. With another year to play, he may be said to have quite a future." ifc % DENVER POST: "The outstanding individual performance in behalf of the Rocky Mountain cause, was constituted by Marvin Jonas, husky University of Utah center, whose great defensive work played an important part in halting the invader's attack." % % Jji ^ NEW YORK WORLD: "The selection of Marvin Jonas, huge center of the University of Utah on the third Ail-American grid selection team was unanimous." UTAH'S ALL AMERICANS PITTSBURG PRESS: "Pomeroy at fullback is one of the country's leading scorers and tops the list of the touchdown-makers in the Rockies. He was named in 1928 on many all-America selections and his performances this season as the Utes snatched their third conference title in four years were even more phenomenal." ^ $z INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE: By David J. Walsh "Pomeroy is a 196-pound sprinter and a combination blocker, passer, line smasher, and line bucker at Utah and has been for three years without recognition. He gets it from me this time. This boy made Utah the football school it is cracked up to be, with Ike Armstrong as the guiding genius." T T T LOS ANGELES EXAMINER: "Earl 'Powerhouse' Pomeroy, that plunging, powerful University of Utah fullback, occupied the center spotlight during the short while he played in the annual West-East grid spectacle. The Redskin flash started the game for the West eleven at fullback." * * * * SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE; "Earl Pomeroy, 200-pounds of solid muscle, together with the speed and agility of a human flash." * * * * PITTSBURG PRESS: "Jonas has been a spectacular center and, like Pomeroy, was mentioned for all-America honors in 1928. Jonas holds the unique distinction of having never left a football field on the losing side in six years of play, three of which were in high school, one as a member of the Ute frosh eleven, and two on the Redskin varsity." KANSAS CITY STAR: "A giant gridiron center, attired in the Crimson and white colors of the University of Utah, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was the center of attraction during the sixty minutes of the colorful intersectional football contest." Marvin Jonas Page IS |