Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, for the first time in 29 years, Yale played Columbia again under different conditions. Opening his season against last year's Rose Bowl Champions was a trying test for Yale's new coach, "Ducky" Pond. Instead of Harold Weekes, Columbia's backfield threat was a swarthy fat-jowled Austrian, Al Barabas. The thing about last week's game which reminded oldsters of Harold Weekes was Barabas' run in the first period?70 yd. to a touch down that counted six points.* Playing hard, evenly matched football on a slippery field, both teams scored in the second half...
While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...
Other novelties on the season's schedule: 1) this week's game, the first in 29 years between Yale and Columbia. Rose Bowl Champions, instead of the "setup" with which the Yale season normally starts; 2) an Eastern Big Four, composed of Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth; 3) ten teams in the Pacific Coast Conference which will travel a total of 71,000 miles during the season...
...deception leads to another. To make sure that the young man cares for her and not the Hunter fortune, Dorothy encourages him to make love to the secretary. Equipped with more common sense than perspicacity, he does so until the combination of a week-end in the Adirondacks, a bowl of hot punch and the secretary's husband prod him into a proper proposal of marriage...
...game. With Bates, Brown, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Army and Princeton in a row the schedule-makers have done a job second only to those at Yale. It will be a sorry sight this fall to watch the two bedraggled outfits, like tired gladiators battling it out in the Yale Bowl...