Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lead before the chase began. Crafty little Letourner was ready for him as Peden came scooting around to shove him to a flying start. Crouched low over the handlebars, their fundaments raised high, Debaets & Hill pedaled madly. Eleven times they zipped around the bowl, the red-shirted team pulling farther and farther ahead until finally Peden caught up with Hill from behind, and the lap was gained. A dozen times thereafter Hill or Debaets gamely started out to recoup their loss, but Peden & Letourner stuck to them like lice. The closing gun, at midnight, found Peden & Letourner winners by that...
...many fathers who witnessed the Yale-Princeton game, Saturday, might have decided that the correct thing to do was to send his son to Harvard. For an autogyro piloted by Leslie B. Cooper, a Princeton graduate, towed a long red advertisement, "Send Your Son to Harvard," over the Bowl before the game. Mr. Cooper, chased to the ground at the airport, refused point-blank to say who was paying for the advertisement. He was working for Roosevelt Field, he said, and the contract for the job was nobody's business. "It's bad enough for a Princeton man to have...
...wise policy of non-participation in post-season or intersectional championship games was reasserted by the Board of Control of the Princeton Athletic Association when it announced yesterday, in regard to its attitude toward a possible invitation for Princeton to represent the East in the Rose Bowl football game, that the agreement with Yale, made in 1923 and renewed in 1927, will continue to apply...
...athletic officials in New Haven have arranged an intensive program, beginning with Columbia and Princeton on the first two Saturdays. Since Columbia usually begins practice around September 1, and since that former football doormat is this year the East's representative to the Rose Bowl, it appears that Yale is offering her football team as a willing sacrifice to big-time football. The necessity for big games and championship teams with resultant packed stadiums has returned to the East along with athletic association deficits. Yale's athletic officials have cause to reach for profitable crowds...
...bandaged, bruises on her face, was lodged secretly in the maternity wing. Chicago Tribune Newshawk Edmond Taylor slipped into her room, recognized "Marguerite Clark" as Gladys Wallis Insull, wife of Runaway Samuel Insull, reported her face unmarked. Daily Mrs. Insull, a beauteous ingenue in the '90s, has a bowl of milk brought to her room, dips her fingers in it for 15 minutes to keep her nails from cracking...