Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With "B" team in action there was another ragged stretch of opening plays, then the Varsity clicked again and plowed from their own 30 into Jayvee territory. The last 30 yards for a touchdown was covered by George Ford's pass to Leo Ecker. Still another tally was added by a steady march from the Jayvee 40, where the Caseymen were given the ball, to the goal line...
Died. "Old Lady," 28, Toronto Zoo's vegetarian baboon; in her sleep; in Toronto. Her keeper, Bill Ford, thought the addition to her diet of carrots, tomatoes and greens accounted for her living twice the normal life span of baboons. She had four children, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren. Said Keeper Ford: "She was the finest mother I ever knew. Humans could benefit by watching her. She did not allow her children to slap their children. When she saw that done, she hit her own children and took the grandchildren away. But when the child deserved punishment, she administered...
...rest of the squad put on a scrimmage in which the Varsity scored twice over the Jayvees. Both tallies came on passes, the first from Chet Litman to Bob Haley and the second from George Ford to George Hedblom. The Varsity started well, after receiving the ball on their own 30 yard line, but hit a snag in midfield when several plays turned into fumbles and missed assignments. So the Jayvees took charge of the pigskin and staged their best march of the year to the 5 yard line...
Frank Casale has the call over Bobby Little for center, with Danny Comfort ranked third. In the backfield Bob Haley is No. 1 quarterback and has George Ford and George Hedblom as understudies. Leo Ecker is the ranking fullback; Bob Watt and Fred Moseley the right and left halves respectively. Mac McTernan, Henry Fuller, and Bill Parquette are the second stringers for Watt and Moseley
...years later Pilot Freeburg was flying eight passengers to Chicago in a trimotored Ford when an outboard propeller broke. Vibration shook a motor loose, lodged it in a wing strut, damaged the landing gear. Pilot Freeburg swung his ship out over the Mississippi River, banked steeply, shook the engine loose, dropped it into the water where its 500 lb. could harm no one. Then, on two motors, he flew 25 mi. to an emergency field, landed his passengers safely. For that he received from President Roosevelt the Post Office Department's first Air Mail Flyer's Medal...