Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Despondent and discouraged have I entered his store; cheerful and wiser have I left. He knew us all; I think he loved us all. For years has he "rooted" for our teams only too willing to back them. Just the other day he said to me. "Why, I'd bet my last cent on the Yale or Princeton games this year! I know Harvard teams and they're all a bunch of men." Together with Mr. Peirce, he built up and maintained an establishment which has been and always will be a landmark in Harvard Square. How many are there...
Oglethorpe's best bet is Turk, who is rated the super-mounder of the South. He has been directly responsible for all of his team's wins this year; he was in the box when Georgia University was held to a tie, he downed Auburn College, and later overcame Georgia Tech. He is also a heavy slugger, but in this he is not unaided, for his team-mates, Captain Hope, Carlyle, center field, Simms, right fielder, and Thaxton, second baseman, are all batsmen who are fond of having the last word. Thaxton is already famous for having landed...
...Virginia backs, Rinehart, a rangy, powerful specimen, was their best bet during the first half. He ran viciously with a high knee action that bowled over several tacklers before he was crushed. He rarely twisted or spun to evade the secondary defense. The effects of this bruising method of running evidently told on him as he became less effective as the game wore on. A compact little back of the type of Maulbetch of Michigan came to the fore in the later moments of the game. Zundell by name, he whisked through openings, usually in the right side...
Schaefer Yearling Best Bet...