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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Glassgow ran 78 yards on the first play to score a touchdown which Iowa never managed to repeat and which it took Illinois all afternoon to tie, 7-7. Surprised by Oregon State's touchdown, eleven Warner-coached Stanford Cardinals got angry. Stanford 40, Oregon State...
...first half Duke led the Navy by a point; in the second Duke's tired spunky team was worn down by a Navy squad kept fresh by substitutions. Navy 45, Duke...
Dowler ran down the sidelines for one score, Hart threw to Yablock for another in the first period, later they made another for luck. Colgate 21, Indiana 6. After their first touchdown Ohio State held everything to beat Michigan...
...bunk. They tore out the end of it, made it much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought to make money in a country where the biggest man who ever held...
...were announced. By that time the jury had dispersed. Painters and critics, never much pleased at Carnegie juries' selections, began to snarl, declaring that the canvases were picked by admen and suitable only for reproduction in Sunday supplements. This year no great name was accorded a prize. The first award was won by Felice Carena of Italy, whose picture The Studio was largest in the exhibition. It depicts the interior of an Italian atelier as it probably never appeared. Although it is oldfashioned, shrewd critics observed its prize-winning attributes-size, arresting subject matter, the "important-work" appearance...