Word: forecasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flung Huey, carrying on the Joe Forecast tradition of predicting only the approximate score of Harvard games, asserts that the Crimson eleven will come within ten points, above or below, the 53-point total amassed the last time Bates was played...
...Huey Flung Huey, prognosticator extraordinary of football scores, finally arrived in Cambridge later yesterday afternoon to take up his post as successor to Joe Forecast on the Harvard CRIMSON...
Manila, P. I., Sept. 27--Two agents of the Harvard CRIMSON, arriving here today in a junk from Shanghai, China, announced that they had with them the successor to Joe Forecast, the famous Chinese prophet, Dr. Who Slung Hooey...
...acquisition of Dr. Hooey's services by the Harvard CRIMSON marks the triumphal conclusion to an arduous search through all sections of the world for a suitable prognosticator of football scores to succeed Joe Forecast. Astrologers, crystal gazers, weathermen, whole tribes of gypsies, spiritualists, and all sorts of seers in all the far corners of the globe have been interviewed by CRIMSON agents since Joe Forecast first intimated some months ago that the rosy path of matrimony was going to lead him forever away from the printshops and football stadia...
...first signs of the impending tragedy were noticed by those close to Joe as early as last fall. The tremendous publicity which the elder Forecast's powers had brought him were beginning to have their telling effect. A telegram was received before the football season last year as follows: "Harvard CRIMSON stop have in custody two men stop have given name of Forecast stop found floating in bay on empty cases stop elder in serious condition stop claims foul play by betting ring stop have asked us to communicate with you stop please advise. Sergeant Curdle, Coast Guard." It gave...