Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...35th Army-Navy game went such notables as Secretary of War Dern, Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, Postmaster General Farley, Maryland's Governor Ritchie, New York's Mayor LaGuardia. Speculators sold tickets for $40 each. In the first quarter, Slade Cutter, Navy's tackle and heavyweight boxing champion, place-kicked a goal from the 20-yd. line. After that, the two teams struggled up & down the muddy field with Fred Borries doing most of Navy's ball-carrying, and a quick-charging Navy line effectively checking Army's Jack Buckler and Joe Stancook. Navy's first victory over Army...
Present in the Harvard line up this year is not only the runnerup Glidden, but also last year's intercollegiate champion. E. Brian Sargent '36, who holds the further distinction in the recent gold raquet tourney at Cedarhurst, Long Island, of having forced Neil Sullivan, national champion, to five games. On his road before giving way the finals, Sargent defeated Donald Simons, Princeton graduate and court luminary...
Sargent is the present intercollegiate champion, having defeated Glidden for the title in a tournament held last March...
...founded Williams College. His father was president of struggling little Howard Payne College at Brownwood. Tex. But Anderson Baten describes himself as simply "a corn-fed country boy from Texas who doesn't know whether he's coming or going." His youthful ambition was to be a champion weightlifter. When he was 23 he performed the terrific feat of raising a 250-lb. dumbbell above his head. Satisfied with that, he turned to literature. Before he started reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from cover to cover for background he had plowed his way through 10,000 other volumes, compiled...
...plan emanated from Lowell House which would have a central pool set up, into which each House would pay thirty dollars, and out of which medals for all champion teams would be bought. Kirkland, Adams, Winthrop, and Eliot subscribed tentatively, remembering that the awards for any winning squad such as football or squash would amount to approximately thirty dollars, and that, since expenditure is directly proportionate to glory, for any House to win more than two championships would be financially disustrous. But the project went down to defeat because of the insolvency of Dunster and the non-cooperation of Leverett...