Gets Close To A Million Votes In Tribune Poll
Felix-Dixon, former star tackle for Boston University and popular swimming instructor at the Hawes Brook pool, has received official notice from Arch Ward, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune and director of the national poll for an all-star game, to entrain for Chicago on August 10th, where he will go through a two weeks’ training grind for the annual all-star game against the world’s champion Redskins, on the evening of August 31. The players will work out in the Northwestern Stadium, and they will use the different fraternity houses on the Northwest-era campus as training quarters. The two-week training period will benefit Felix greatly as he is to report to the Brooklyn Dodgers’ training camp for an exhibition game against these same Redskins on September 4th. Dixon polled close to a million votes to finish third over thirty-two other top-notch tackles and forty more of lesser calibre.
This is exceptional as B. U. is not considered a high-powered football college as yet. The fact is also remarkable in that he polled three-fourths of his total from the middle west and southern sections of the country, gaining a much greater majority than such powerful linemen as Franco of Fordham and Monsky of Alabama, who have received a. great deal of publicity during their football careers.
The Chicago Tribune made the all-star game an annual affair four years ago when it operated under the policy that it would present the players the fans wanted to see. The department had no interest whether these stars came from great universities or colleges of small enrollments.
The poll has settled the fact that the fans know real ability when they see it. Chuck Sweeney of Notre Dame leads the race at present. The poll is expected to hit the seven million mark by the end of the month.
Pat Hanley, coach at Boston University, has often stated that if Dixon and Gary Famigletti had played on-greater publicized college teams’ they would have been unanimous choices for All-American honors.
These two athletes. played with all the fury and finesse that they possessed during their three-year careers. One will always remember the courageous exhibition Dixon gave in the Villanova and Boston College games. He tore and slashed, opening large gaping holes for Solly Netchem and Famigletti to crash through. He was knocked unconscious in the Boston College game only to come back and continue to wear down the opposition.
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