Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago and Michigan of winning the "Big Ten" Conference championship vanished Saturday. Ohio defeated Michigan by 14 to 7, block-minutes of play, while Illinois won a stubborn battle from Chicago by 3 to 0. As Ohio has no game this week, it will face Illinois in the crucial game two weeks away with a clean slate. The Illinois, how-ever, must defeat the strong Wisconsin eleven next Saturday to enjoy a like prestige. The Illini are favorites over the Badgers, but Ohio is picked to win the final game and the championship for a second year. Ever since Chick...
Centre College, led by Captain Alvin "Bo" McMillin, the fighting quarterback, faces the crucial test of its brilliant career when it bucks up against the University eleven this afternoon. Thirty-nine thousand people are coming from far and wide to witness this great inter-sectional struggle in which the odds are in favor of the Crimson. With Captain Horween, Owen, Churchill, and Fitzgerald lined up in the backfield, the husky Kentuckian players will have to exert themselves to the utmost for football experts believe that this Crimson combination will prove to be the most formidable quartette, both on the offense...
...start, the players seemed to be very closely matched, dividing the first six games equally, but Guild soon drew away and captured the set with three straight games, breaking through Niles' service for the crucial game, and himself uncovering too swift a service for Niles...
...more crucial instant than the present could be imagined, at which might come a national election. Almost every question upon which it is the duty of the Congress of the United States to pass, and the decision of which it is the prerogative of the president to execute, is under discussion. The determination of an American foreign policy, the revision of tariff regulations, the solution of labor problems, the extent to which the government shall control public utilities, the difficulty of adjusting the prices of necessaries to the requirements of the citizenry, all at one time are up for consideration...
...next game was the second of the series with Princeton. Remarkable fielding coupled with the ability to hit at the crucial moment gave Yale the well-earned 4-2 victory over the Princeton nine on the latter's home grounds. The game, filled with many thrilling plays, was an excellent exhibition of real baseball throughout...