Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain John Dampeer of last season's 1938 team is expected out soon, and Dick Harlow has expressed a desire that football men play basketball in the winter; consequently a large number of prospects are expected out the latter part of the week. It is rumored that there are several court flashed on the football squad who have not gone out for the Varsity before. Veterans from last year's Varsity and Freshman teams are still the leading competitors for the 1935-36 squad, but no cuts have been made, as yet, and no positions are assured...
Eddie Casey, followed Horween in 1931 and lasted through 1934, to be succeeded by Dick Harlow...
...Shipmates Forever" has already been reviewed twice in these columns. Those who read the previous comments will have decided not to see it; all others are hereby warned. It concerns the navy and the dear old flag, spiced with crooning by Dick Powell and dancing by Ruby Keeler. Lewis Stone, an embodiment of patriotism as well as the hero's father, restrains his emotions bravely, although his voice weeps throughout. Ross Alexander is amusing, but his part is not sufficient to justify the rest of the picture. "Shipmates Forever" is a dull combination of saccharine romance and big-navy propaganda...
...Freshmen will present a revised team, on which the men have been shifted repeatedly. Captain Cliff Wilson, who started out at center is playing a guard; Harry Russell, the present center, is a former guard; Dick Hedblom, another one-time guard, has at one time been shifted to center, and is now starting as the blocking back...
...have always imagined as an elfin creature of some wistfulness and considerable dignity is played by one Mickey Rooney as a combination of an immature Tarzan and Peck's Bad Boy, uttering the most fearsome grunts and growls; Lysander who turns out to be none other than our own Dick Powell needs some more Shakespearean seasoning, and when his voice rises into the higher octaves, he is practically indistinguishable from Mustard Seed and Pease Blossom...