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Bus (nickname)
Bus is a nickname, notable users of which include: * Bus Griffiths (1913-2006), cartoonist, lumberjack, and fisherman * Bus Mertes (1921–2002), American football player and coach * Bus Whitehead (1928–2010), American basketball player * Bus Wilbert (1915-1946), American racecar driver * Bus Cook, National Football League sports agent * Harry "Bus" Yourell (1919–2011), American politician See also * The Bus (other) The Bus may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Bus'' (TV series), a reality television show format started in Netherlands * ''The Bus'' (video game), a bus simulation game by TML-Studios * "The Bus", an episode of the American television se ... * Bus (surname) {{Nickname Nicknames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Griffiths
Gilbert Joseph "Bus" Griffiths (1913 – September 25, 2006) was a cartoonist, lumberjack, and fisherman. He was best known for his graphic novel ''Now You're Logging'', published 1978 by Harbour Publishing. ''Now You're Logging'' presented, in cartoon form, a complete look at the techniques, tools, and personalities of logging on the West Coast in the 1930s. He began drawing cartoons while working as a logger, doing work for Vancouver's Maple Leaf Publishing during World War II and comic strips about logging for ''BC Lumberman'' magazine. He retired from logging in 1961 and began work as a commercial fisherman. In 1972 he began work on ''Now You're Logging'' to document logging in the era before modern technology. A complete picture is presented of the techniques and lives of the typical logger of the 1930s, with tree felling and log bucking, high climbers, chasers, choker setters, a hooktender, an accident and rescue in the woods, the use of the crosscut saw, rigging, a spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Mertes
Bernard James "Bus" Mertes (October 6, 1921 – January 17, 2002) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Iowa and professionally in the National Football League (NFL) and the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) with the Chicago Cardinals, Los Angeles Dons, Baltimore Colts, and New York Giants. Mertes served as the head football coach at Bradley University from 1951 to 1952, at Kansas State University from 1955 to 1959, and at Drake University from 1960 to 1964, compiling a career college football coaching record of 50–63–1. Coaching career Kansas State Mertes was the 24th head football coach at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, and he held that position for five seasons, from 1955 until 1959. His record at Kansas State was 15–34–1. Drake After leaving Kansas State following the 1959 season, Mertes became the 19th head football coach at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, serving for five seasons, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Whitehead
Milton Edgar "Bus" Whitehead (January 13, 1928 – June 11, 2010). was an American basketball player. He was an All-conference college player for the University of Nebraska and was an AAU All-American for league power Phillips 66. Whitehead came to the Cornhuskers from Scottsbluff, Nebraska and led the Huskers to back to back Big Seven Conference titles in 1949 and 1950. In the 1948–49 season, Whitehead teamed with guard Claude Retherford as the Huskers tied Oklahoma for the Big Seven title. After Retherford's graduation, Whitehead became the focal point of the Nebraska offense for 1949–50. Averaging 15.7 points per game (then a school single-season record), Whitehead was the only unanimous member of the Big Seven all-conference first team. He was also named an honorable mention All-American by the Associated Press. Following the season, Whitehead became the first Nebraska player selected to play in the East-West college All-Star game. After graduation, Whitehead wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Wilbert
Edward Clifford "Bus" Wilbert, Jr. (September 2, 1915 – August 11, 1946) was an American racecar driver. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was killed at the age of 31 on August 11, 1946, while in the middle of a race in Indiana. Career He was a racecar driver of both big cars and midgets. His first dirt track racing competition was in 1941, while previous to that he raced midget auto races. In 1941 he joined the U.S. Navy as a test pilot and flight instructor. He was a lieutenant and a combat pilot. He was a leading driver in the Consolidated Midget Racing Association and he won three AAA Championship races. He was part of the 1946 AAA Championship Car season The 1946 AAA Championship Car season was the first season of American Championship car racing following World War II. After four years without racing in the United States, the AAA Contest Board was initially concerned about having enough races, en .... Death On August 11, 1946, his car skidded on the shou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Cook
James "Bus" Cook is an NFL sports agent. Early life Cook was born and raised in Man, West Virginia. Cook attended American University on a basketball scholarship. In 1970, he enrolled in law school at the University of Mississippi. He received his law degree in 1974 and began working as an attorney for Fairchild Construction Company in Hattiesburg, a job he held until he saved up enough money to open his own private practice in 1976. After ten years, he briefly looked into the possibility of representing NBA players, but that didn't work out and Cook had no further plans of venturing into the world of sports agency until he met Favre. Career Cook's first client as a sports agent was Brett Favre, after the two hit it off playing golf in Mississippi. Cook's next client was quarterback Steve McNair. In 2001, Cook negotiated the NFL's first $100 million contract, when Brett Favre signed a lifetime extension of his contract with the Green Bay Packers. Some of Cook's notable clie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Yourell
Harry "Bus" Yourell (February 19, 1919 – September 19, 2011) was an American politician. Yourell was born in Hammond, Indiana on February 27, 1919. He attended high school in Chicago and La Salle Extension University. During World War II, he served in the United States Marine Corps and was awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. After the war, Yourell moved to Oak Lawn, Illinois and opened Bus' Drive In. From 1959 to 1963 he served as a Trustee for the Village of Oak Lawn. He was involved with the Worth Township Regular Democratic Club and at the time of his election to the Illinois House of Representatives was the Democratic Committeeman of Worth Township. In 1966, Yourell was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives as one of three members from the 6th District. The district at that time included all of Worth Township and Calumet Township, and portions of Stickney and Thornton townships. During his time in the House, he was the Chair of the Joint Committee on A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bus (other)
The Bus may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''The Bus'' (TV series), a reality television show format started in Netherlands * ''The Bus'' (video game), a bus simulation game by TML-Studios * "The Bus", an episode of the American television series ''Without A Trace'' * "The Bus", also an episode of the American television series ''M*A*S*H'' * ''The Bus'', a comic strip by Paul Kirchner, originally published in ''Heavy Metal'' magazine * "The Bus", 1965 documentary by Haskell Wexler that follows a group of Freedom Riders People * Jerome Bettis, former National Football League player nicknamed "The Bus" * Julian Savea New Zealand rugby player nicknamed "The Bus" * Va'aiga Tuigamala, rugby player nicknamed "The Bus" Public transportation * TheBus (Honolulu) public transportation in Honolulu, Hawaii. * TheBus (Prince George's County) bus system serving Prince George's County, Maryland * TheBus (Hernando County, Florida) * TheBus public transportation operated by Cornwall Transit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus (surname)
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Bus is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Schelte J. Bus (born 1956), American astronomer * Dave Bus (born 1978), Dutch professional footballer * Dirk Bus (1907–1978), Dutch sculptor * Nicole Bus, Dutch singer * Balázs Bús, (born 1966), Hungarian social worker and politician See also * Buș, surname * Buss, surname * Busse, surname * Bus (nickname) Bus is a nickname, notable users of which include: * Bus Griffiths (1913-2006), cartoonist, lumberjack, and fisherman * Bus Mertes (1921–2002), American football player and coach * Bus Whitehead (1928–2010), American basketball player * Bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |