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Show Gridiron Topnotchers This continues a series of articles featuring outstanding football players play-ers from schools throughout the nation. Watch their records during the coming season. When football coaches dream their mental peregrinations center around players like Lou Brock, Purdue Pur-due university senior halfback, who runs, kicks, passes, runs back punts, is a fine blocker and in fact does everything but shovel snow off the playing field. Lou came to Purdue from Stafford, Staf-ford, Kan., and at the very outset of his sophomore sopho-more year made it clear that his football foot-ball career was extremely extreme-ly bright by breaking into the starting Boilermaker lineup as running run-ning mate to Cecil Isbell. Brock's sensational sen-sational runs, runbacks and punts last season sea-son had Purdue Pur-due fans talking talk-ing to them- 7 selves. Oppos- Lou Brock ing coaches grant that his great play was ore of the chief factors in Purdue's past great season. He is noted principally for his running and kicking, along with his blocking, but is also a dangerous passer. The offensive setup of several games last year was completely changed when Brock pulled Purdue out of deep holes with a great punt return and then a return punt to coffin corner on the succeeding series. As for running. Brock averaged more than six yards each attempt against such lines as Minnesota, Fordham, Ohio State, Iowa, Wisconsin, Wis-consin, Detroit and Butler. Against Ohio State he gained 95 yards in 12 attempts. Twenty-one years old, Brock stands exactly six feet tall and weighs about 190 pounds. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) |