| Show r Don Hutson Closes Record Books hooks BooksOn BooksOn On Man Greatest One Man Pageant By Bob Meyer CHICAGO Dec 8 UP Ef Effective Effective Effective Ef Ef- as s of ot now Don Hutson left lert end becomes Mr Donald Hutson Hutson Hutson Hut- Hut son of Green Bay Wis solid citizen citizen citizen citi citi- zen Red Cross chairman Lions club and favorite son When the final gun sounded ending end ing the Green Phil Bay game I last Sunday Hutson closed the book on a year nine-year career of professional football It was all legal too For Hutson specified in his contract that he and the gridiron par part company after the 1943 season However the solid citizen from Pine Bluff Ark leaves be behind behind behind be- be hind a full page in the football re record ord book Under records readIng reading reading read read- ing from left to right Lifetime records records Most Most passes caught most touchdown passes caught 83 most yards gained catching passes most points scored most touchdowns touchdowns touchdowns touch touch- downs scored 86 most consecutive games scoring one or more points 35 shortest touchdown pass caught 4 inches loches Season records Most passes caught 78 most touchdown passes caught 17 most yards gained catching passes 1211 most points scored most touchdowns scored 17 Game records Most yards gained catching passes against Brooklyn November 21 1943 Miscellaneous M Most o 0 S a t years Basketball Scores ScoresBy By Associated Pleas EAST Connecticut 49 25 SOUTH Virginia 47 Fort 34 Norfolk naval air station 72 Camp Butner Butner But- But ner oer 19 MIDDLE WEST Grosse lie He naval air bate base 46 T Toledo lledo naval 28 Western Michigan 73 73 Fort Cutter Custer 34 U. DePauw V 5 41 41 11 DePauw 40 fO Simpson 46 46 Drake 45 5 Indiana 38 38 Wabash 35 nUn Illinois 56 56 Detroit 25 Kansas U 31 31 Fort Leavenworth 27 21 McPherson r e college 60 Sterling 36 Lora 66 g. g k hospital Clinton inton I Iowa 32 Iowa Ot luJa navy 49 9 William Peon Penn 17 37 Wartburg S 46 46 Ellsworth 21 SOUTHWEST Oklahoma X A TJ St SO Tinker tr traM 30 t Wo Fort Worth army air aJr field 36 6 Texas eta e a Christian 25 named most valuable player 2 most years leading paSs pass receiver 6 most consecutive ye years rs leading scorer 4 most records held 17 As the above testifies for aguy a aguy aguy guy who didn't know what pro football was nine years ago Hutson Hutson Hutson Hut- Hut son did all aU right Curley Lambeau Green Bay coach talked Hutson into returning return ing to pro ball for one more season season season sea sea- son last year But he agreed to Hutson's clause in the contract I that this would be the last year That's worried Lambeau ever since He cant can't realize that his boy Don is really gone Hutson didn't know a football from a toy balloon back in PineBluff Pine PineBluff PineBluff Bluff where he was a a. track star and baseball player But he had hada a close friend Bob Seawell who did know the difference When Seawell got an offer from Coach Frank Thomas of Alabama to come to college he said Not unless Hutson can come too Wondering who who this this guy Hutson was Thomas said said O. tO 0 K and gave Hutson a track scholarship just to get Seawell After discovering Dons Don's speed he made him first- first string end and three years later Hutson was v In the Rose Bowl game Curly Lambeau Green Bay coach dropped into Thomas' Thomas secret Rose Bowl practice via the fence He was stranded by a rip in his pants when the gendarmes cameto came cameto cameto to throw him out but Thomas recognized recognized recognized rec rec- him and invited him to watch his boys play Lambeau saw a slightly built fellow running running running run run- ning from punt formation and cutting cutting cutting cut cut- ting back He jotted down his number figuring he would make good halfback material At the Rose Bowl game he looked up the number and found it was a kid named Don Hutson listed as end He offered him hima a contract to play with the GreenBay Green GreenBay GreenBay Bay Packers Hutson didn't know who the Green Bay Packers were Lambeau explained It didn't take Hutson long to discover that he needed something something something some some- thing besides speed and p pass pass- s- s catching to remain a 8 pro fro pro So Soe he ale e perfected his famous dodges He learned to apparently give up upon upon on a pass and then suddenly sprint away from the defense to catch it He invented vented the tag out pass so called because it comes in at atthe atthe atthe the receivers receiver's shoe tops like a catchers catcher's throw to second base And that's the kind of a guy pro football is losing when Don Hutson resumes a domestic life me in Green Bay with his wife two daughters bowling alley cocktail lounge the Red Cross and th the Lions Lions club club of which he is the duly elected president |
