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...Griffith intercepted Vejar's pass on the 9-yd. line. ¶Statistics: Ground gained rushing: U. S. C. 97, Notre Dame 95; gained passing: U. S. C. 31, Notre Dame 131; first downs: U. S. C. 5, Notre Dame 13. ¶The crowd-100,000, in the Memorial Coliseum where the Olympic Games were held last summer-was the season's largest. In Baltimore, 1,723 spectators watched a charity game between picked teams representing North and South. South won, in an inch of snow, 7 to 6. From Knoxville last week came an announcement that Southern footballers...
Next night at the Coliseum the Prophet, heavily veiled as always, presided at the annual ball. Crowned Queen was debutante Myrtle McGrew Lambert. She is the daughter of Albert Bond Lambert, onetime president of Lambert Pharmacal Co. ("Listerine"). He gave Charles Augustus Lindbergh his first $1,000 toward financing his transatlantic flight, gave St. Louis the ground for its municipal airport, Lambert-St. Louis Field...
Omaha also has a Coliseum and it was here that the 38th King & Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben held their levee in a setting modeled after the Temple of Love at Versailles. Congressman Malcolm Baldrige, as Court Chancellor, addressed the regal train, the State's best and richest young and old folk. King was William Henry Schellberg, 6-ft., silver-haired president of Union Stock Yards Co., done up in the usual Empire court dress complete with cream satin knee-pants. Long a leading figure in Omaha, he is credited with having done much to build...
From the huge Olympic Coliseum, with its three flagpoles, 105,000 seats and Olympic torch, the scene of the Xth Olympiad shifted last week to the 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, where 10,000 spectators with Japanese parasols sat in a small concrete stadium looking down at a narrow block of pale green water...
...Amsterdam in 1928 or at Paris in 1924. It was not due to timing, done by a combined camera and stopwatch operated by electricity, switched on by the starting gun and stopped by the breaking of the tape. It was partly due to the track in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Five years ago a Los Angeles hurdler named Kelly, practicing on a disused trotting track near Los Angeles, found the surface particularly fast and springy. Los Angeles contractors said the track was made of peat. The Olympic Committee used crushed peat (taken from Baldwin Hills where is the Olympic Village...