Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dressed up as Uncle Sam, Horace Woodward, of Arlington, Va., mounted and coaxed his steed into Bull Run, switched horses in midstream with Ann Hedrick, just to show it could be done...
Michigan had Tom Harmon. Pennsylvania had Francis Xavier Reagan. Last week, as undefeated Penn went to Ann Arbor to tackle unbeaten Michigan, sportswriters set the stage for a Duel of the Century between two great halfbacks. Reagan's spectacular record this autumn almost matched Harmon's: ten touchdowns to Harmon's eleven, 156 yards gained a game to Harmon's 158. Reagan's superb punting, passing and running had made Penn a candidate for the mythical U. S. football championship...
While jubilant Michigan alumni monopolized dinner conversation wherever they happened to be, 2,000 homecoming grads gathered at Ann Arbor that night for a farewell banquet to 69-year-old Fielding H. ("Hurry-Up") Yost, Michigan's Grand Old Man, who will retire next spring after 40 years as football coach and athletic director. Through tear-dimmed eyes, they reminisced about Yost's immortal point-a-minute footballers who, during the first five years of the century, lost only one game out of 57, rolled up 2,821 points to their opponents' 42; the 13 All-Americans...
During Yost's 40 years at Ann Arbor, Michigan football teams have played 308 games, won 237, lost 54, tied 17. Yet Fielding Yost last week remembered not only the full name and graduation year of all his stars (37 of Michigan's 40 captains were at his farewell dinner), but also some definite play that immortalized each one. He even recalled the exact spot on which each play was started-and no one challenged his memory...
...comparatively uneventful. Aside from some occasional woo-pitching in the balcony, and the universal gnashing of teeth at any appearance of Dick Powell or Robert Taylor, the management has had little to fret about. Vaudeville has gone and egg-throwing has become a national issue. Even the materialization of Ann Sheridan on the stage of the U. T. has become an unfulfilled memory...