Word: dame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Pittsburgh had a sit-down strike against post-season games; this year its Freshman team was incensed at the lackadaisical manner in which their tuition was cared for. Now the college wants to go simon-pure. At Notre Dame an enterprising student recently issued a pronouncing gazeteer so that the public might become better acquainted with the far-flung "fighting Irish." But Mr. Hutchins says that only a handful of students are in big-time college football; Notre Dame combats this by acquiring plenty of players. They used eighty-eight men in one game, four Irish and eighty...
...Notre Dame there is no de-emphasis of football. Coach Elmer Layden has a coast-to-coast collection of 81 players on his varsity squad, 42 of whom were captains of their prep-school or high-school football teams. Starting the season with 177 varsity candidates, he weeded them out until he had three complete teams, any one of which the late, great Knute Rockne, his teacher, might have been proud of. Victor over Kansas, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Carnegie Tech, Army, Navy and Minnesota on successive Saturdays, last week Notre Dame added Northwestern to its string-and incidentally exhibited...
...football season reached the homestretch last week most sportswriters agreed that Notre Dame possessed the No. 1 team of the U. S. But some there were who cast their votes for Texas Christian, which had rolled up 234 points while defeating all nine of its opponents. No. 1 player on the Texas Christian team is 150-lb. Quarterback Davey O'Brien, responsible for an even 200 of its 234 points. Against Rice Institute last week little Davey turned in a routine performance: three times he threw touchdown passes and once he carried the ball over the goal line himself...
...Notre Dame, led by 18-year-old Sophomore Bob Saggau, scored three touchdowns, overpowered powerful Minnesota, 19-to-0, for its seventh victory in a row this year...
...Woollcott of his famed anecdote about the young lady who, visiting Paris with her mother, was sadly disconcerted one day to find that the old lady had Disappeared and that nobody would admit that she had ever existed. For the mother, The Lady Vanishes substitutes a dowdy English governess (Dame May Whitty); for Paris, it substitutes an express train on which young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) is going back to England; and for bubonic plague, which was the reason in the Woollcott story for the old lady's complete blotting out, it substitutes an international intrigue, two British cricket...