Word: alonzo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cotton-haired, devout, 81-year-old Amos Alonzo Stagg was being carried off the field last week on the shoulders of his football team. His College of the Pacific team had just toppled a collection of All-Americas and professionals from Del Monte Pre-Flight, 16-to-7, in one of the season's biggest upsets. Not since Alonzo Stagg pitched Yale's baseball team to a 6-to-5 victory over Harvard 57 years ago had he beamed so broadly. His College of the Pacific looked like the strongest on the Pacific Coast, perhaps his best team...
...Pacific gets by Southern California this week, it should end the season undefeated and the Coast's contender for the national championship title, for which Army, Navy and Notre Dame (also a Navy school) are contending spectacularly. It would also give Alonzo Stagg his first crack at coaching a Rose Bowl team...
...Alonzo Stagg's old custom when he won a game was to let things go, celebrate by eating a quart of ice cream. With the wartime shortage he has had to run in a substitute-a dish of fresh figs...
Loud Congressmen. Into San Francisco, to probe this bet, came a House Marine subcommittee, chairmanned by Congressman James A. O'Leary (D., N.Y.), no friend of Kaiser's. Maritime Commission Auditor Alonzo Bryan made some scandalous charges to the committee...
...grade: Negro Captain Alonzo Pietro of Columbus' good ship Nina...