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CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, December 19, 1942
Comdr. Hamilton Is ^Football Man of Year’
Comdr. Tom Hamilton, head of the four Pre-Flight Schools, has been
named football’s “man of the year” for 1942 by the Football Writers
Association of America. The award is given annually to the individual
who makes the greatest contribution to football during the year.
Other nominees and the order of their finish in the final poll were:
Paul Brown, coach of Ohio State’s Big Ten champions; Harry Stuhl-
dreher, whose Wisconsin team finished second to the
Buckeyes; Ray Eliot, who returned football to a
winning basis in his first year at Illinois, and All-
American Frank Sinkwich of Georgia. The writers
credited Comdr. Hamilton with having done more
than any other individual to keep the game at a near
normal tempo in 1942.
Hamilton's emphasis on 1942 football started
with the inauguration of the four Pi*e-Flight Schools.
A famous football player himself at the Academy
and later head football coach there, he is a great
believer in football as a sport to develop fighters.
“There are certain qualities desirable in an avi
ator which can be developed through the medium of
football—aggressiveness, physical and mental; physical fitness, coordi
nation, alertness, discipline, teamwork, toughness, and quick reactions,”
Comdr. Hamilton stated recently.
Comdr. Hamilton, who will be 37 on Dec. 26, completed his term
as head coach at the United States Naval Academy in 1936 and joined
Navy air patrol squadrons in the Pacific. He was a nine-letter man
at his alma mater in football, basketball, and baseball.
The “man of the year” trophy will remain in possession of the Naval
Academy and a plaque, indicative of the honor accorded him, will become
his permanent property.
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Further evidence that Lt. Comdr.
Jim Crowley’s Pre-Flight football team
was among the best in the country is
furnished by the fact that two members
of the squad made the All-American
service team selected by United Press.
Joe Kovach won a place on the first
eleven at the center spot and Len Esh-
mont was named to a backfield post.
Both played under Coach Crowley at
Fordham.
Honorable mentions included Bob
King at end, Steve Hudacek at tackle,
and Joe Martin, fullback.
Expected to be one of the weaker
sisters at the start of the season the
Cloudbusters won 11 of 13 games, los
ing only to Boston College and Ford
ham .. . which should indicate that the
team had some good coaching and that
the players took the game seriously.
Men like Jim Crowley have done a
great deal to prove the worth of foot
ball in getting ready for the bigger
fight ahead.
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Biggest name on the Cloudbuster
quintet is Cadet Gus Broberg, former
Dartmouth captain and All-American
ace. However, trying to find out some'-
thing about him is another proposi
tion.
An hour spent with Broberg turned
out to be an hour spent discussing
everything but Broberg. He didn’t
give out with anything, and had it
not been for a couple of his mates
there would have been no story. They
knew him at Dartmouth, and they told
what they could.
Broberg’s home is in Torrington,
Conn., a town of 30,000 people. There
he attended high school, and won nine
varsity letters—three in football, three
in basketball, and three in baseball.
Entering Dartmouth in 1937 he gave
up the gridiron, and turned to basket
ball and baseball. In these two sports
he won six more letters.
As a sophomore he showed some of
the older lads on the team how to do
it when he scored 25 points to lead
Dartmouth to victory over the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania. That won him a
place on the all Ivy league team that
year, an honor seldom given to a
sophomore.
But that was just the beginning.
His junior year saw him lead the
league in scoring. He again made the
all Ivy league team, began to get some
national recognition, and his mates
elected him captain of the 1941 Dart
mouth team. It was tops in the east
that year, and represented that sec
tion in the NCAA tournament at Mad
ison, Wis. They lost to Wisconsin
(who later won the national title) by
a single point in the closing seconds
of play. The following night they met
the University of North Carolina for
the consolation prize, and came out
on top, 60 to 59. Broberg picked up
37 points in the two games which
should give you a pretty good idea of
what he can do when the pressure
is on.
Most All-American teams included
Broberg in the starting lineup his
last year in college. He participated
in several all-star games, most famous
of which was the annual game played
at Chicago between the cream of the
college crop and the national pro
champs. Brobferg’s team won, 33 to 32.
Graduating from Dartmouth in the
spring of 1941 he then entered Syra
cuse University to do graduate work
in political science. Then came Pearl
Harbor and the war, and Gus enlisted
See BROBERG, page 8