Word: game
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beginning the second week of practice in preparation for the Bates game, Coach Arnold Horween '20 ran his first squad through a stiff scrimmage against the Seconds yesterday in which the University team emerged victor by a 13 to 0 score. Horween kept his men at it steadily, substituting frequently and halting the play to give instructions...
Well known to many a fly-fishing U. S. banker and moose-shooting U. S. broker, is shockheaded, barrel-chested David Courtois, Canadian guide. For years Guide Courtois was guardian of the Triton Club, exclusive Quebec fish and game preserve, one share of stock in which (necessary for membership) is worth $300. When not guiding U. S. and Canadian sportsmen, shock-headed Dave Courtois raises children, traps beaver. In August 1928, he loaded two canoes with flour, bacon and steel traps and traveled 450 miles up the Peribonka River from his frontier home in the village of Roberval with...
...champion, of course. In choosing the author of the article on Boxing the U. S. advisors were doubtless less impressed by James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write on Boxing. Whether or not they would have asked William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to write the section if Dempsey had knocked out Tunney when last they met, the editors do not say. But from their choices of new authors in other fields...
...wives" each. Third member of the Cagle-Herbert family is George W. Lermond, the Army's ablest track man. Wife Lermond stands in the middle of his class academically. *The Army-Navy quarrel over eligibility of first-year men still hangs fire. There will be no Army-Xavy game this year...
...Mexico City President Emilio Fortes Gil attended, as he had promised he would do (TIME, Sept. 9), a football game between the University of Mexico and the Club de Sportivo. The President's wife went too and. with the cloudy enthusiasm proper to all female football spectators, was heard to cry: "Que Emocien!" ("How thrilling!"), the day after the game, Reginald Root, Yale '25, University of Mexico Coach, was called again into the presidential presence, to hear these gratifying words: "Football appeals to me more than any sport. . . . Our young men are virile and will soon learn...