Word: camped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon at 3 o'clock will go into today's game outweighed by almost 14 pounds to the man. What they lack in weight the Westerners will attempt to make up in speed and accurate handling of the ball. Few plays, according to information gathered in the Boilermaker's camp yesterday afternoon, are likely to be directed at the Crimson guards this afternoon. Off tackle slants, and sweeps, and a deadly forward pass are the weapons which have constantly carried the Hoosier eleven to victory...
...next feat, perhaps the most spectacular and sensational of all, was when Ostheimer and Fuhrer spent 36 hours without rest in climbing four peaks from the Columbia Ice-field, one of which, the North Twin, was over 12,000 feet. The party left camp one morning at 1 o'clock and returned after many hours of hardship on the ice, having used flash-lights to guide their steps during the night. It was the first complete ascent to the ice-field from the Athabaska valley...
Moving by horse again the party made a permanent camp for two weeks at Fortress Pass, during which time Ostheimer, Fuherer, Weber, de Laittre, and Maclaurin made a side trip into Lick Creek Valley. From there Mt. Catacombs was ascended for the first time, as well as Mt. "Lowell," 10,300 feet, named by the party in honor of President Lowell...
Coincident with the closing of the last U. S. Citizens' Military Training Camp, the War Department reported last week that in 1927 a record number of persons, 39,676, had enrolled in these camps. The number of camps was 53, scattered through 33 states with one camp in San Juan, Porto Rico. Never before had so many enrolled, never before had so few fallen sick or died. Three died; two from accidents, one from a disease...
Gene Tunney was escorted, after a welcoming demonstration by a Chicago mob, to his training camp at Lake Villa, III. As is usual on such momentous occasions, a dozen motorcycle police "made way" for the celebrity's car at about 60 m.p.h. Hitting a bump, Officer Frank Truba's motorcycle careened into two others-smash. Mr. Tunney leaped from his motor, knelt, helped give first aid. . . . Later somebody asked Mr. Tunney if boxing was conducive to ideals. Said he: "Ideals are congenial...