Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Notre Dame, led by 18-year-old Sophomore Bob Saggau, scored three touchdowns, overpowered powerful Minnesota, 19-to-0, for its seventh victory in a row this year...
Harry Wolfe and his brother Robert ("Old Bob") bought the venerable Journal in 1902. (One story is that Bob fell in love with the Journal because it defended him when somebody tried to blackmail him.) Bob Wolfe was a huge bear of a man, forceful, shrewd, hard-drinking, hard-cussing. He served a penitentiary term for shooting a man who insulted a lady he was escorting, personally broke into every boathouse on Buckeye Lake to aid rescue work during the 1913 flood, used to spout memorized poetry by the yard. He died...
Quiet and aloof, Harry Wolfe is the opposite of Bob. Other present-day Wolfes are Old Bob's son, Edgar, and Harry's three sons, Robert, H. Preston and Richard. Each has an equal voice in running the family shoe business, banks (BancOhio Corporation) newspapers and radio station (WBNS). Only unanimous decisions are acted upon. The Wolfes also own Ohio Agricultural Lands, Inc.-5,536 acres of choicest farmland in nearby counties, where they raise 12,000 hogs, 2,000 cattle, feed 10,000 sheep a year...
...with black eyes. There's colorful Tim, who like Hacker has found new joy in tackling. There's the steady Chief, with the barrel-house voice and the sure toe. There's Don and Win, a set of ends who have justified the confidence placed in them. There's Bob B., slim, reserved, quiet, who can carry the mail while Torbie gets his wind. And there's Chink, who gives Tim a rest at center, but allows the team no let-down...
Adams, described in the H.A.A. News as the most razzly-dazzly outfit in the league, has a dangerous passing combination in fullback Willard Whitman and end Bob Akerson. Whitman's heaves salvaged numerous games for the 'Coasters this fall, and were the cause of the Deacons' going down...