Word: fordham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old sophomore at New York University. At a Boston meet last winter he jumped 6 ft. 8½ in. in the eccentric manner which he acquired practicing at home, in Flushing, L. I. Almost certain of a place on the U. S. team last week was Joe McCluskey, Fordham steeplechaser, who learned about distance running when he was a newspaper delivery boy in Manchester, Conn. The U. S. has the world's record shotputter, Leo Sexton, and a huge blond Californian, Herman Brix, who, experts think, is just as good...
Harvard 0, Pennsylvania 2Yale 8, Springfield 3 Harvard 3, Columbia 4 Yale 10, Columbia 4 Harvard 11, Maine 2 Yale 2, Columbia 1 Harvard 29, Boston University 3 Yale 4, Lafayette 5 Harvard 4, Syracuse 0 Yale 3, Fordham 14 Harvard 5, Penn State 0 Yale 0, Pennsylvania 8 Harvard 5, Pennsylvania 3 Yale 7, Syracuse 2 Harvard 2, Georgetown 8 Yale 11, Penn State 1 Harvard 8, Princeton 1 Yale 4, Pennsylvania 3 Harvard 12, Bates 1 Yale 15, Wesleyan 2 Harvard 4, Holy Cross 5 Yale 7, Dartmouth 4 Harvard 5, Brown 2 Yale 7, Dartmouth 9 Harvard...
...responsibility for every play. Once he fined a batter, ordered to bunt, for hitting a home run. He took pride in developing players. Christy Mathewson, reputed the best pitcher in history, was a first baseman on the Giants when McGraw joined the club. McGraw discovered famed Frankie Frisch at Fordham, saw him become baseball's ablest second baseman. He began training Rightfielder Melvin Ott of the present Giants when...
Identified last week as Col. Lindbergh's intermediary with the kidnappers was Dr. John F. Condon, an elderly lecturer at Fordham University in The Bronx. Dr. Condon it was who inserted the 13 "personal" advertisements in New York newspapers signed "Jafsie" (J. F. C.) whereby communication was maintained with the baby-snatchers. These advertisements referred to "ready money" and a "principal" who had to be "satisfied," with "the real articles," promised to "follow your instructions" and insisted on a "C. O. D." transaction. On April 2 Dr. Condon delivered the ransom money to the kidnappers' agent with whom contact...
...Garfield Jennings, 20, vexed linesman of the Taylorsville, N C. High School, which was playing Statesville High. Almost all the other deaths followed bashings on the football field. Most discussed of the deaths from violence were those of Army's Richard Brinsley Sheridan (TIME, Nov. 2) and Fordham's Cornelius Murphy. Murphy, 22, died fortnight ago from a ruptured brain blood vessel. Eleven days prior he had been buffeted into unconsciousness. He was hospitalized for concussion of the brain, released prematurely...