Word: biff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's schedule-between Minnesota, and Nebraska-was one in which an upset was inevitable. Minnesota, which had lost only one game (to Northwestern in the mud last year) since 1932, was being touted as the most highly regarded team in the U. S. But Major Lawrence ("Biff") Jones was making his debut as Nebraska's coach, and Major Jones had never in his coaching career lost an opening game...
Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, famed onetime (1926-28) Stanford fullback, was driving his wife and their good friends, Mr. & Mrs. John McCann, in the Hoffman car on a weekend outing to Aptos, Calif. He was allegedly speeding down a tree-lined road at 60 m.p.h. when another car popped out at an intersection. They collided. Mrs. McCann was hurled out, suffered brain concussion, severe cuts & bruises...
...participants, passengers are merely guests even if they share the expenses. This is "nothing more than the exchange of social amenities," is not "payment for the transportation." Affirmed the Court: Dr. Walker could recover the lower court's award of $25,000 damages from Partner Adamson; the Biff Hoffmans were not liable for the $31,237.65 damages claimed by the McCanns, good friends no longer...
...Bible was born in Jefferson City, Tenn., 46 year ago, Biff Jones in Washington, D. C., five years later. Jones was captain of West Point eleven in 1917. Delta Kappa Epsilon Bible warmed the bench frequently as a football sub at Carson-Newman College. He supplemented his B. A. degree with graduate work at North Carolina, Ohio State, and Centre College. Before the war Bible had coached Mississippi College three years, Louisiana State one year. After the war Biff Jones rose from assistant coach at West Point to the head coachship (1926-26). Army regulations causing his transfer, he followed...
...Nebraska D. X. established a reputation as coach and soft-spoken gentleman with a habit of smacking his lips as he talked. Biff Jones has the gallantry of an Army officer of the old school, without its starched aloofness...