Word: collegian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fault in their husbandry. The fault in their husbandry. The talk that they heard ran sometimes on other young men, besides the perennial headliners, who might give him unexpectedly stern treatment: stocky Fred Lamprecht, perhaps, the intercollegiate champion; or Lauren Upson from the Pacific Coast, another rising collegian; Don Garrick, the Canadian junior, who also boxes, and his countryman, C. Ross Summerville, who bounced Max Marston from the 1924 Canadian Amateur...
...Brandenburg, University of Wisconsin. Souvenir of the longest baseball throw ever made any collegian. Distance 384' 1". Date 1884. With the regard of his old friend and former member of the faculty...
...might have thrown even farther. Field day exercises were held on the old state fair grounds, now Camp Randall, the throw down the level racetrack, on a day devoid of wind, in the presance of a large assemblage. If this record ever has been equaled by amateur or collegian, I never have heard of it. However, unlike young Osler, I never slaughtered a pig with a stone behind the ear, though in boyhood at Baraboo I let fly a potato at a bibulous shoe merchant just as he was turning into a saloon far down the alley, hands crossed behind...
...Michigan City, Strangler Lewis sprang upon Wayne ("Big") Munn (TIME, Jan. 19), called the "Collegian" because he refutes every sneer at his excessive stupidity with the retort that he is a college graduate Neither could see very well. The Strangler's little red eyes had been inflamed by getting resin in them. Munn had a patch over his left eye which had been butted. After losing the first fall, Lewis applied 20 headlocks, hoisted the collegian over his shoulder, threw him over the canvas as a chambermaid throws a sheet over a bed. He took the third fall after...
...Holy Cross nine a 7 to 6 win, he defeated Princeton 4 to 1, and helped to pile up a 14 to 3 score against the Crimson. He will join the Detroit major league team next year with what is probably the greatest record ever taken by a collegian into professional ranks...