Word: alonzo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This description, by its Coach Alonzo Stiner, of the Oregon State team which last week arrived in Manhattan to play Fordham failed to do justice to its peculiarities. Young enough to be mistaken for one of his players. Coach Stiner, Nebraska tackle in 1925-26, has perfected a defense for passes so effective that Western teams have completed only four against Oregon State this year. The players who start the game finish it unless someone is severely hurt; in three successive games this season, Oregon State used only one substitute. Most eccentric of all Coach Stiner's notions...
Little Irvine ("Cotton'') Warburton, Southern California's quarterback, was accused of choosing his plays poorly by Coach Alonzo Stiner, whose Oregon State team held U. S. C. to a scoreless tie. Last week, against the University of Oregon, which beat Oregon State, Warburton caught three forward passes, turned one of them into one of the four touchdowns that won for Southern California...
Puerto Rico, reputedly at the instigation of Dr. Barcelo's Liberals, protested Governor Gore's appointment of Rafael Alonzo Torres, Socialist, to the University Board of Trustees. Student delegations twice called on the Governor, were twice refused admittance. Incensed, they presented the Governor with a Manual of Manners, then went on strike, demanding the removal of Socialist Torres...
...From volcano-cursed Nicaragua to volcano-cursed Guatemala President Roosevelt last week shifted Minister Matthew Elting Hanna (no kin to the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna) to succeed Mr. Whitehouse. Graduate of West Point, Mr. Hanna turned career diplomat in 1917. From Managua's 1931 earthquake Minister Hanna emerged a local hero...
When Stod King (class of 1914) was an undergraduate at Yale he and his friend Alonzo ("Zo") Elliott wanted desperately one spring to be sent as delegates to a Zeta Psi smoker in Boston. Delegates to the smoker had their expenses paid, were excused from classes. But to he elected they had to prove themselves entertainers, prepare an act to regale their fraternity brothers. Stod King and Zo Elliott wrote a song and when they did their act in Boston, the other Zets stopped pounding with their beer mugs, stopped moulding spongy biscuit-insides to pelt about the room. With...