Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tension has been called to a football game which the Harvards has got scheduled with the Yales along about the 25 of the month and everybody is after me like long horn sheep to tell them how do I think the game will come out so as they can bet vice versa. Well friends in the 1st. place I don't think the game will come out as I think they made a big mistake putting it on the same day when the Eagles plays there national game of asparagus with the whelps on the bowling green at Gloucester. There...
...hundred and fifty years ago an English "Macaroni" made a bet with several of his fellow "bucks" to send a letter a hundred miles in an hour. His wager was immediately accepted and he proceeded to write a letter, place it inside a cricket ball, and have it thrown around by a circle of England's best bowlers for an hour. At the end of the time, it was computed that the letter had travelled upwards of a hundred and twenty-one miles...
...yard event. This is better than any of the Crimson entries have shown up to the present time. Murphy should win second place in the 100-yard event, with Field and de Rham batting for third place with Page, another Eli who has done good time. The best Crimson bet to nose out Comins in the longer dash is Hull, with deRham a possibility for third place over Funk, who scored for the Elis against Princeton 1925 last Saturday...
...Heap, Hayes, and Howlett. Howlett, probably the fastest of these, ran second only to Gourdin last year and is considered to be as fast if not faster this year. To offset him the University will have Chase, Evans, Hovey, and Wansker. Chase is the University's best bet in the 220-yard dash, but M. I. T. with Poole, Howlett, and W. L. Smith might easily take two places, possibly winning the event. Chapin would have been a logical point winner in this event, but he can not take part due to an old injury which will probably keep...
...game shuts his eyes and says to his neighbor: "I'll bet it was intercepted...