Sport: Football, Nov. 16, 1931

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Like his confreres in the Northwestern backfield (Meenan, Potter, Olson, Rus-sell), big, blond Ernest ("Pugger") Rent-ner affects a nonchalance which some-times discourages Coach Dick Hanley. He lounges about the field at practice, bestirring himself less when he carries the ball than when he has a chance to perform a chore many footballers hateĀ— blocking. After practice, he jumps a high wire fence at one end of the practice field at Evanston, a feat so precarious that Coach Hanley has considered making it impossible by topping the fence with barbed wire. On the...

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