Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven fighting Deacons smashed through a six-point half-time handicap Thursday afternoon to down Winthrop 12 to 6, and walked off with the 1936 House football title. They will meet the champion team among the Yale colleges later this month, to decide the House-College supremacy...
Edward L. Cutter, Jr. '38 got away first on an off-tackle plunge to run 25 yards through a broken field, climaxing a steady Puritan offensive with a second quarter score. Thomas B. Champion '38 failed to convert...
...Olympic team. In 1912, at the age of 25, he was a track star running for the United States the Olympiad in Stockholm. He was then three years out of the University Illinois where he had earned several "I's" in track and joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Not a champion drinker, Brundage acquitted himself creditably Stockholm. Soon after, he took up handball, and became one of the country's outstanding singles players while his own construction company put up some Chicago's flashiest apartment and office buildings...
...Your champion for cheated students is barking up the wrong tree when he attacks the Mil. Sci. department. Apparently he has a room-mate who is taking courses offered by that department, and is basing his argument on just what has been told him. He gives the impression of a freshman frantically hunting for something to write about a half hour before the deadline at Warren House...
...liberty until the baseball season opens next spring. First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the World Champion New York Yankees offered himself to Hollywood film producers for the role of Tarzan, hitherto acted by Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Dressing up in a leopard skin for Manhattan cameramen, Yankee Gehrig threw out a hairy chest, crowed: "It may sound like a screwy idea to you guys but I'm serious. . . . I've always hustled at everything I've taken up. ... I'd give it all I have. I'd even wrestle lions." Cornered by news...