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Erv Prasse, the Glossary

Erwin Theodore "Erv" Prasse (December 1, 1917 – June 18, 2005) was an American multi-sport standout athlete in the 1930s and 1940s, notably in football, basketball and baseball.^[1]

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Iowa Hawkeyes baseball players

American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Asheville Tourists

The Asheville Tourists are a Minor League Baseball team of the South Atlantic League and the High-A affiliate of the Houston Astros.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Basketball positions

In basketball, there are five players on court per team, each assigned to positions.

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Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference, among others) is the oldest NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.

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Carl Schurz High School

Carl Schurz High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Irving Park neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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The College Football All-America Team is an honor given annually to the best college football players in the United States at their respective positions.

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Detroit Lions

The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit.

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In gridiron football, an end is a player who lines up at either end of the line of scrimmage, usually beside the tackles.

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Heisman Trophy

The Heisman Memorial Trophy (also known simply as the Heisman Trophy) is awarded annually since 1935 to the most outstanding player in college football.

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Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball

The Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball team is part of the University of Iowa athletics department.

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Kinnick Stadium

Historic Nile Kinnick Stadium is a stadium located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.

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The All-Big Ten Conference football team is an annual Big Ten Conference honor bestowed on the best players in the conference following every college football season.

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Naperville, Illinois

Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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National Basketball League (United States)

The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional basketball league in the United States.

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Nile Kinnick

Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr. (July 9, 1918 – June 2, 1943) was an American naval aviator, law student, and college football player for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Erv Prasse and Nile Kinnick are Iowa Hawkeyes football players and Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball players.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Officer (armed forces)

An officer is a person who holds a position of authority as a member of an armed force or uniformed service.

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Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach was one of five beach landing sectors of the amphibious assault component of Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Oshkosh All-Stars

The Oshkosh All-Stars were an American professional basketball team based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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Piedmont League

The Piedmont League was a minor league baseball league that operated from 1920 through 1955.

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Purple Heart

The Purple Heart (PH) is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after 5 April 1917, with the U.S. military.

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Second baseman

In baseball and softball, second baseman, abbreviated 2B, is a fielding position in the infield, between second and first base.

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Springfield Cardinals

The Springfield Cardinals are a Minor League Baseball team based in Springfield, Missouri.

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St. Louis Cardinals

The St.

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Third baseman

A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball or softball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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University of Iowa

The University of Iowa (UI, U of I, UIowa, or simply Iowa) is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States.

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University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame

The University of Iowa Athletics Hall of Fame is a sports history museum located in the Roy G. Karro Building in Iowa City, Iowa, U.S. The museum pays tribute to the most legendary and influential Iowa Hawkeye sports heroes.

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Western Association

The Western Association was the name of five different leagues formed in American minor league baseball during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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The 1937 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1937 Big Ten Conference football season.

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The 1938 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Big Ten Conference teams selected by the Associated Press (AP) and United Press (UP) for the 1938 Big Ten Conference football season.

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The 1938 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1938 Big Ten Conference football season.

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The 1939 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Big Ten Conference teams selected by the Associated Press (AP) and United Press (UP) for the 1939 Big Ten Conference football season.

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The 1939 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1939.

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The 1939 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1939 Big Ten Conference football season.

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1940 NFL draft

The 1940 NFL draft was held on December 9, 1939, at the Schroeder Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erv_Prasse

Also known as Erwin Prasse, Prasse.