On the first day of football practice at Columbia in 1938, photographers hauled out an old archery target. To get stunt pictures, they placed Quarterback Sid Luckman 25 yd. away and told him to toss passes. Six times in a row he hit the dead center of the four-inch bull's-eye. In seven years of college and pro football he proved that he was just as accurate under gridiron fire.
Last week burly Sid Luckman hit his marksmanship top. Before a record crowd of 56,696 in Manhattan's Polo Grounds, he showed himself the best passer of the year, perhaps the best in football...
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