Word: coons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday's game with Medford saw the Crimson score three times in the final period to win 3 to 1. The Harvard lineup for the Milton Academy game: g, Livermore; lb, Dean; rh, Smith; lhb, Coon; chb, Lillee; rhb, Gilbert; or, Guild; ir, Glidden; c, Pearson; il, Jeem; ol, Simitch...
...summary: G. Sarshman; rf, Knowlton; lf, Coggan; rh, Curtin; ch, Mavor; lh, Coon (Stromberg); ir, Ruckle; cf, Potter; il, Pearson; ol, Kern, Substitutes; Omar, Klobyornson, Mable...
...offensive from the start, the Crimson hooters got rolling in the second half to notch four goals and clinch the contest. Although the prep schoolers tried hard, they couldn't penetrate the Crimson defense enough to do any serious damage. The summary: G. Livermore; lh, Sternberg; rf, Corrigan; lh, Coon; ch, Kern; rf, Siller; or, Jessner; ir, Potter; c. Simitch; il, Gelert; ol, Chen...
...hero in this picture is Drive, "the best durned coon dog in southeast Missouri," who was rescued last week after having been trapped in a cave in Sugar Camp Hollow, deep in the Ozarks. The dog's owner, Jake Light (right, patting the dog) and some 25 Ozark farmers had worked for ten days, neglecting the war, their homes and their hay-mowing, as they blasted through a 30-ft limestone wall. Drive's rescue made front pages across the land. Tearful Jake wrapped Drive in an old shirt, clambered into his two-seater buggy and went home...
...Alabama, drawling Lister Hill, who coon-shouted the nomination of Franklin Roosevelt for Term III at Chicago, fought for his U.S. Senate seat against well-to-do, sad-faced James Simpson, 54, banker, corporation lawyer, respected state legislator. With "white supremacy" as a shrill battle cry, Birmingham's moneyed, mill-owning, New Deal-hating "Big Mules" got behind Candidate Simpson and pushed hard. So did the Negro-baiting Alabama Sun and Alabama Magazine, whose specialty is pictures showing Eleanor Roosevelt being civil to Negroes. Simpson campaigners vigorously lambasted Lister Hill as a traitor to Southern ideals, a tool...