Walt Buland 

Walter  Buland (Big Boy)
Position: G/T
Height: 6' 1'' Weight: 213
Born: 1892, MN, USA
College: none

RII: 1919,

  

 

 

Quoting Big Fellow Buland: “I’m going out every afternoon this week to kick and throw the ball around and to get some of that stay-there wind. We came down here to play football for Rock Island and it is our business to see that we get in condition to give the fans the very best that is in us”.

1919
October 11th, 1919 - Rock Island Argus

Historical Information... Louis Schrage had this to say....

The Spencer Theater was on 2nd Avenue between 19th and 20th streets in downtown Rock Island -- across from Spencer Square. Spencer Square was a beautiful, full-block park -- trees, flowers and benches. There was a gazebo in the center of the square. The Spencer Theater was a small, second-run movie house. It ran double features, and admission was about 25 cents. The Spencer was never air-conditioned. It was in its hey-day in the 1930s and 1940s. There's now a parking lot on the theater site

Special Thanks to Bill McElwain of the Quad-Cities Online 9/3/2002