Word: alonzo
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...Coach Alonzo Stagg of Chicago reproduces in moleskin the tactics of the late Prussian army; when one line falls he sends up another. To people in the stands at Philadelphia it seemed that every substitute linesman was bigger than the last. But where one had fallen the next fell; Penn, with a swift, irreverent back named Paster Fields, smashed through...
Using two full teams and a variety of football tactics Coach Alonzo Stagg's Chicago bravos beat Maryland...
Never has one of Coach Alonzo Stagg's Chicago teams resorted to open football unless desperately pressed. Eleven maroon-sweatered rakehells amazed 40,000 spectators by drop-kicking and passing their way to victory against a fast team from the University of Florida. S. Rouse, left half, kicked the two winning goals. Score: Chicago 12, Florida...
...were thunderbolts. Now he writes of a crone, cheated of her shadow by a magician of old Spain, and of a romantic worldling who came to the magician's wood to learn the making of gold for his sister's dowry; of how this lad, one Ramon Alonzo, did not rest until he had rummaged through the magician's spellbound shadow-box and found that which ends the story as all fairy tales should end. There is a certain philosophy of shadows woven through the pages, but the book is mostly music...
...perhaps be even more ludicrous to judge the Senate by the prayers it listens to than by the speeches delivered from its floor. As it is well known that the latter are often violent but hollow, so it has just been complained that the former, however devout, are puerile. Alonzo g. Anthony, a proofreader of Reading, Pennsylvania, writes in a letter to Senator Pepper, "The language used by Rev. J. J. Muir, Chaplain of the United States Senate, is like that of a third grade schoolboy...