Word: catfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vanderbilt completed only four passes against Georgia Tech, but one of them fell into the arms of fleet Harold ("Now-I") Askeu and decided things. 6 to 0. Unbeaten Georgia's touchdown in the third period matched the one New York University had made in the second. Then Vernon ("Catfish") Smith place-kicked the point that won an exciting game, 7 to 6. Georgia rates behind Alabama because Florida tied Georgia. Southwestern Conference. Texas Christian, one of the country's best teams last year and unbeaten this, beat Rice...
...Downs of Georgia ran back Yale's kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown, the Yale stands groaned. Could their team lose on a fluke? But there was no fluke about the Georgia march in the last period, or the passes that sailed straight into the arms of white-shirted Catfish Smith, the slippery end who beat Yale last year. Yale was the lucky side, profiting by the rarest accident in football?an airline recovery of a fumble which Barnes carried over after the ball bounced to him out of Kelly's arm* This was the lead that Georgia overcame...
...load after load of suffering fish, the rescuers return them to the main stream of the river or ship them away to stock special preserves. Black bass, pickerel pike, pike perch, white bass, yellow perch, crappies cannot stand crowding, bad water, must be rescued first. Buffalo fish, carp and catfish are toughest...
...City of New York and Columbia University he temporarily forsook the trappings of war to concentrate on fish. In 1886 he became a Tutor of Natural History, in 1896 Assistant Professor of Zoology. In 1890 he won his Ph.D. with a thesis: Pineal Fontanelle of Placaderm and Catfish. His interest in fish and his interest in armor remained parallel. In 1903 he was appointed Curator of Fishes & Reptiles at the Museum of Natural History. In 1906 he became Honorary Curator (without salary) of Arms & Armor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Almost the same time that he was obtaining...