Word: fours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leverett spent most of the afternoon in the Eliot half of the field, and when the final whistle blew the Bunnies had the ball on the Elephant three inch line with four downs in which to cross the goal...
...want it to be what the World Series is to baseball, what the Rose Bowl is to football." Thus chirped 25-year-old Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt in the fall of 1937, when he invited four of the best race horses of that year to compete in an entry-free, post-season race at Pimlico...
...Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid-Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year-old Cravat (famed Johnstown was retired last month because of a mysterious wheeze). Challedon had won eight out of 14 starts this year; Kayak, seven out of nine; and Cravat had finished in the money in eleven...
...title of a play they staged. A gold loving cup was conferred upon Ted Barnick-and the title of Chicago's Handsomest Iceman. So in Chicago last week the National Association of Ice Industries convened to celebrate a four-year-old renaissance...
Midwestern football, a wag once said, is divided into four major leagues: Big Ten, Big Seven, Big Six and Big One. The Big One is Notre Dame. This year the Fighting Irish are no disgrace to the tradition that has made Notre Dame the adopted alma mater of millions of men-in-the-street...