Word: fordham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Thomas Allan Dwyer gained admittance to Fordham University in New York this autumn, he was a problem that deans of practically every U. S. college have encountered. Cripples are usually excellent students. Their will to learn and their abstinence from extra-curriculum work tends to make them so. Yet they are apt to be painful to physically normal undergraduates. Father Charles J. Deane, dean at Fordham, had urged against Student Dwyer's enrollment...
Harvard 13, Penn 10; Ohio State 16, Princeton 14; Yale 20, Maryland 7; Brown 14, Dartmouth 7; Villanova 14, Boston College 6; Michigan 20, Chicago 7; Notre Dame 10, Minnesota 13; Holy Cross 27, Fordham 7; Tufts 13, New Hampshire 9. Joseph Forecast 620PM
...Fordham, Captain William Feaster tore a ligament in his shoulder (tackling) and will be lost for early games...
...invading squad does not come to Soldiers Field today with as formidable a reputation this year as some of the Worcester nines of the past. They have been beaten by Brown and Fordham, while the Bruins fell easy victims before the Harvard bombardment last Saturday. On the other hand, the Purple nine has won from Georgetown, one of the two teams which have bested the Crimson in a diamond encounter this season...
...Irishman from the Bronx and two Englishmen heard a pistol shot, bolted down a cinder path, glided over wooden barriers (2½ ft. high) without wasting an inch of height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished...