Word: clyde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harbor what might be called perfect disaster treatment. It began when passengers on the British steamship Fort Victoria, inching along in the soupy mist toward Bermuda, heard the bedlam of fog warnings, the fierce, hoarse blasts of a whistle which seemed altogether too near. Then the prow of the Clyde liner Algonquin, outbound for Galveston, loomed out of the murk and buried itself with a mountainous thrust in the port side of the Fort Victoria...
...they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes now to husk in and they worked carefully, getting clean ears. When a second cannon-shot ended work Olson's pile of 25.27 bushels was about two pecks better than what Holmes had husked. Wild Clyde Tague of Guthrie County, Iowa, came in third...
...individual star of the visiting squad is "Cannonball" Clyde Crabtree, ambidextrous triple threat par excellence. He will be watched with a great deal of interest and concern by the Harvard board of strategy for several hours Saturday afternoon. Another Dixie menace is Royce Goodbread, 200-pound halfback whose springtime specialty is running the 100-yard dash in a trifle under 10 seconds flat. Rumor has him confined to crutches now but he is making the trip to Cambridge and don't be surprised if he hobbies out on to the field Saturday and discards his crutches in a moment...
Besides getting a stiff workout on the tackling and blocking dummies, team A and a 15-minute dummy scrimmage against Florida plays as put on by the seconds. Coach Knox had imported Roscoe Fitts '22, former Crimson halfback, because of his left-footed kicking. He played the part of Clyde Crabtree, Florida's left-footed punter...
...3/10 sec. against a runner from Japan-a world's record if it is allowed. Before the afternoon was over narrow-hipped Miss Kinuye Hitomi covered the same distance in 12 sec.-a world's record for ladies. Young John Straley of Paulding, Ohio, said to Umpire Clyde Crone what many sandlot players often long to say to umpires. With a quick fist Umpire Crone did what umpires often long to do to fresh players. Straley fell awkwardly, did not get up. Policemen escorted Crone from the field, held him in $5,000 bail for manslaughter...