Word: drake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound class: Drake (Y) defeated J. H. Burns '29, by decision. Time...
...Southern California, one Dale Drake, glider expert, persuaded his friend Lloyd O'Donnell to tow his glider by motored plane 200 miles to Long Beach, for a glider rodeo there. Their air train went well for 175 miles, a record air tow. Over Santa Susanna Pass, near San Fernando, the tow rope broke. Glider Drake was left 7,200 ft. in the air. Undaunted, he coasted ten miles and landed safely in a barley field...
...nays were heard throughout the land. Said Walter Eckersall, former great quarterback: "One of the worst things ever done to the game." Said Dr. Forrest C. Allen, Kansas University athletic director: "It is a good rule." The pros listed among their number Dr. Clarence Wiley Spears (Minnesota), Ossie Solem (Drake), Tad Jones (Yale), Cleo O'Donnell (Holy Cross), Ira Rodgers (West Virginia), Bob Zuppke (Illinois). The cons included Amos Alonzo Stagg (Chicago), Dick Hanley (Northwestern), Glenn Thistlethwaite (Wisconsin), Dr. Frank W. Cavanaugh (Fordham...
Among the books which Mr. Grabhorn gave are "Francis Drake" by J. W. Robertson. "The Golden Touch" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Salome" by Oscar Wilde, "Hymns to Aphrodite," and "The Book of Job." All of these books are executed with tasteful artistry and skill...
Died. Rear Admiral Franklin Jeremiah Drake, 82, retired: at his home in Washington. Rear Admiral Drake once served on the historic frigate Constitution; and as a midshipman, in 1863, chased Confederate privateers. He was descended from Sir Francis Drake, Admiral of the English Navy...