Word: dame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With breathtaking suddenness, Notre Dame went 58 yards for a touchdown and scored three more to lead 27-0 at the end of the first period. With Halfback Larry...
...itself for the clash of two football titans-Notre Dame v. Tulane. From his mourners' bench at South Bend, Ind., Coach Frank Leahy cried, "We'll be outweighed for the first time in two years." On the Tulane campus in New Orleans, where Coach Henry Frnka (pronounced franka) had been holding secret practice for weeks, there was impressive silence...
Last week, with a Confederate flag waving, Frnka's unbeaten, untied heroes went north to avenge a 59-6 beating by Notre Dame two years ago. In the pre-game workout, they looked fully up to their advance billing and their record-big, fast, alert and confident. But within ten minutes after the game had begun, Tulane's dream of a national championship had been irretrievably shattered...
...third period, with Notre Dame leading 33-0 and Leahy's second-string backs in the game, Tulane recovered its equilibrium long enough to score a touchdown. Leahy sent his triggermen in again for another quick punch, ended the game with his second-and third-stringers in easy command. Final score: Notre Dame 46, Tulane 7. Tulane had committed the grievous sin of looking too strong too far ahead of kickoff time. With all of' its opponents pointing as usual for Notre Dame, it looked a bit as though South Bend had broken its customary policy for once...
...robust burghers of Cincinnati had ever known of the notebooks that bitter Mrs. Trollope was carrying home up her raveled sleeve, they would have found some way to keep her in town. "I cannot speculate," said the redoubtable old dame, "and I cannot reason; but I can see and hear." The London firm of Whittaker, Treacher & Co. thought so too. Barely two years later, when Cincinnatians were still guffawing every time they passed the crazy shell known as "Trollope's Folly," a book appeared that roused one of the loudest howls of pain and outrage ever heard...