Word: dan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Handsome Dan," the Yale bulldog that was so attractive to the Harvard Lampoon three years ago that they couldn't resist kidnapping him, is dead. He sustained a broken leg three weeks ago and unable to survive the accident because of complications, died last week...
There was no substitute for Handsome Dan on Saturday and Yale ingenuity was unable to make one up. Ducky Pond isn't so keen on mascots anyway, getting mildly irascible during last year's Princeton game when a bulldog that looked remarkably like his own was aired in the Palmer Stadium before the Princeton ganie. It was learned that it belonged to Ed Leader, Yale's crew mentor, and, at that, the score was too close for any degree of comfort...
Bought in 1933 by the Class of 1937, then Freshmen, he was officially baptized Handsome Dan '11, being named after the first Yale bulldog of that name who expired in 1899. He was paid for by small change contributions. He was paraded once before the Yale stands in 1933 and everyone agreed that he was a very handsome, but Yale lost the game, and they lost it to Harvard...
...cavalry captain, Wallace Wade surprised his neighbors by entering the apparently unpromising profession of football coach and athletic director, at Fitzgerald & Clarke Military School (now defunct) at Tullahoma, Tenn. When Fitzgerald & Clarke football teams won the State prep-school championship two years in a row, Coach Dan McGugin asked him to come to Vanderbilt as his assistant...
...Dan McGugin, who was. born in Iowa but prefaced intersectional games with profane locker room descriptions of Sherman's March to the Sea, was the father of Southern football. Other schools began speculating about Dan McGugin's new assistant when for two years (1921-22) Vanderbilt produced undefeated teams. In 1922 both Kentucky and Alabama offered Wade their head coaching jobs. Wallace Wade went to be interviewed in Lexington where there occurred one of the crucial episodes in the history of Southern football. Having practically decided to take the Kentucky job, Wallace Wade waited in an anteroom while...