Word: briens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dame possessed the No. 1 team of the U. S. But some there were who cast their votes for Texas Christian, which had rolled up 234 points while defeating all nine of its opponents. No. 1 player on the Texas Christian team is 150-lb. Quarterback Davey O'Brien, responsible for an even 200 of its 234 points. Against Rice Institute last week little Davey turned in a routine performance: three times he threw touchdown passes and once he carried the ball over the goal line himself; he completed twelve out of 20 passes for a gain...
churchmen, merchants, welfare societies and reform groups, have not done much to batter down this figure. On the contrary, the forces of reform received a stiff jolt last week-at the hands of Mrs. Robert Dwyer, wife of a Washington police-court clerk, and her friend Helen O'Brien, a bookkeeper...
Strictly amateur punters. Mrs. Dwyer and Miss O'Brien had gone to the Bowie race track outside Washington, had chipped in $1 apiece to place a bet on the daily double, selecting No. 1 (a long shot named Charles F.) for the first race and No. 9 (a longer shot named James Boy) for the second race-just because they liked the number...
Dwyer and Miss O'Brien were among the few spectators who shrieked with glee...
...told how he had once asked a certain Jerry O'Brien who has lived a stone's throw from Harvard for 50 years why he hated the University. "It isn't a question of me hating them," he replied, "it's Harvard hating...