Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under a fleet of storm clouds like battleships driving in from the Pacific, a tough team from St. Mary's baited the Golden Bears of California. Boyd ("Cowboy") Smith, half-sized halfback, with caliper legs and a blue jersey, ran for 80 yards to make one touchdown, for 45 to make another, and for the first time since 1917 a St. Mary's eleven went home rejoicing from Berkeley. Score: St. Mary's, 26; California...
...laden with a heavy ego. He lacked the quiet clarity of Dr. Henry Seidel Canby of the Saturday Review. He was an lowan, with the midlander's tendency to lunge into emotional appreciations. Sparkle was not in him, as it is in that erudite, free-lancing Irishman, Ernest Boyd. His opinions savored strongly of the pundit, even after he dropped the P. from his signature and wrote more as a journalist than as a professor at the University of Illinois. And this was a ponderous pundit, not an explosive, like "the diabolical little boy with a bean-shooter...
Died. Douglas Boyd, 67, ferryboat engineer who had crossed the Hudson river 400,000 times in 38 years of service; at Beacon, N. Y., of blood poisoning...
...Dartmouth tennis team, playing on Divinity Courts, was completely outclassed by the local players. Whitbeck and Perkins both dropped one set to Boyd and Partridge, the Green stars, but took the decisive third sets with ease. Although the match was between four man teams. Lanhart and Smith replaced Perkins and Pratt in the doubles so that six Crimson athletes saw action...
...summary: Singles, Whitbeck (H) defeated Boyd (D), 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Perkins (H) defeated Partridge (D), 2-6, 6-2, 6-0; Gordon (B) defeated Morcuft (D), 6-2, 6-4; Pratt (H) defeated Moore (D) 6-3, 6-2; doubles Whitbeck and Gordon (H) defeated Partridge and Boyd (D), 6-1, 6-1; Lenhart and Smith (H) defeated Morcraft and Moore...