Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young lives and lowered college ideals. . . . The substitute must provide at least three things: it must be a great spectacle which will attract crowds of paying sightseers, it must invoke at least the semblance of college rivalry, and it must be so ordered that graduates and undergraduates can easily bet their money on the result...
...difficult to picture these Philadelphians in the new order of things. The gods of the new independents were the Phillips Brothers, dashing Harry Ford Sinclair and his quieter brother Earle, Pennsylvania-born William Grove Skelly, cocky Wirt Franklin, lavish Ernest Whitworth Marland. Joshua S. Cosden who would bet on anything...
...check signed Ogden L. Mills reached Democratic headquarters to help elect the man whom the Secretary of the Treasury is energetically stumping the country to defeat. A year ago Secretary Mills bet an unnamed Maryland woman that Governor Roosevelt would not be nominated. Lately he paid the bet and the woman contributed it to the Roosevelt campaign fund...
Purdue, trying to live up to its rating as a good bet for this year's Big Ten Championship, broke few holes in Minnesota's line but dented it steadily in the second period to win, 7 to 0, on Carter's touchdown and Pardonner's kick...
...settled on the five gridirons where Harvard's five major opponents are today playing, it is only natural that a better estimate can be made of their strength. But at the moment Harvard, with its preponderance of backfield material and its splendid A team line, looks like the best bet of the six teams to come through the season with a whole skin. Coach Casey in his second year with the Varsity has the advantage of not having to worry over what men he should put in the first team, but rather which players are most worthwhile being developed into...