Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tampa, cigarmaking gateway to Florida's west coast, has a reputation for lawlessness and corruption entirely out of proportion to its population (100,000). There one chilly November night nearly two years ago a police squad burst into a private home without benefit of warrants, seized the leaders of a tiny group of reformers, whisked them off to police headquarters where they were booked for "Communism." They were released with alacrity. Three of them were then escorted to waiting automobiles, driven into the country, flogged, tarred, feathered and left in a swamp. One of them, Joseph A. Shoemaker, partially...
Sport Geography. The U. S. game of football captured first the East, then the Midwest, then the Pacific Coast. As its conquest went on, great football teams sprang up in region after region to contest the supremacy of the sections where football first reigned. To the South football came later than to any other section. The University of Virginia, which is generally credited with starting the modern game of football in the South, sent a team to try out the North in 1890, two decades after the first intercollegiate game was played in New Brunswick, N. J. The test...
...turn out a Bobby Jones, so it was slow to take up football, did not break into the big time until nearly twelve years ago, but then proved its mettle. The break can be dated from New Year's Day 1926, when the University of Washington, Pacific Coast Conference champion, invited what it considered the best team in the U. S. (outside the Conference) to play in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses game. That was Alabama's Crimson Tide which in one of the most exciting second halves in Rose Bowl history won Coach Wade his first...
...best. Today, football in the South still differs from football in other sections of the country. It is frequently played under a hot sun, while spectators sit in shirt sleeves eating ice cream, and players go onto the field barelegged, but the quality of Southern football wins respect from coast to coast. For, as a century ago the course of empire took its way Westward, the course of football now takes its way Southward...
...following letter written from a progressive state on the Pacific Coast was directed to a Professor of American Literature...