Word: buffalo
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Second through sixth places were occupied by Penn runners as the Quakers showed unexpected depth. Part of the trouble was the fact that Buffalo Bill Crain, the third member of Harvard's big three, finished a lowly 18th. Crain has been sick all week and was running only at half speed under instructions from Coach Bill McCurdy...
...pigeons and are winning. Cincinnati, where eleven city workers became ill, and one died, after cleaning out pigeon droppings from an abandoned water tower, has started strict enforcement of an anti-feeding ordinance. Fines up to $50 for violators have made the pigeon rara avis there. Authorities in Buffalo are also making a fight to the finish. They employ five fulltime exterminators, who trap pigeons wherever they can and unobtrusively kill them by wringing their necks. The exterminators are also crack marksmen and shoot pigeons downtown in the early morning...
...Buffalo 35, Kansas City...
...Crimson victory hinges largely on the performance of the runners below the big three of Hewlett, Meehan and William "Buffalo Bill" Crain. These three can all be expected to finish near the top, but both Brown and Cornell have a great deal of depth that must be countered by strong performances by other Crimson runners...
Into Competition. In those days Pacific lived in the shadow of President Tully C. Knoles, who was wont to dress up like Buffalo Bill, with his goatee jutting, and lead parades aboard a white stallion. But when Knoles died in 1959, the school found in his longtime assistant a distinctly different leader. Eying California's booming public citadels of learning, President Robert E. Burns saw that private Pacific was out of the competition...