Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing field. Nobody paid particular attention when Fordham breezed through its early games against Kings Point (44-9) and Scranton (33-13), but when it bowled over Syracuse, 47-21, fans began to sit up and take notice. Then, fortnight ago, Fordham ran wild and smothered favored Georgetown, 42-0. The Fordham team, model 1949, began to evoke memories of the great Ram of old; the match between Fordham's unbeaten Cinderella outfit and awesome, unbeaten Army began to look like the week's big game in the East-even though nobody off the Fordham campus gave...
...Carpenter's Apprentice. McShain, the son of a prominent Philadelphia builder, entered Georgetown University at 19, intending to become a lawyer. But when his father died in John's freshman year, he decided to carry on the business. For three years he worked on the job with his employees, learning to be a carpenter ("That's what a builder really is"). At night he went back to the office to study bookkeeping and estimating. In 1930 he got his first chance-the Philadelphia Board of Education's $2,100,000 Administration Building. "It looked...
...T.C.U. 0 0 7 7--14 Texas 0 0 7 6--13 Northwestern 20 6 7 6--39 Colgate 0 7 7 6--20 Michigan 0 7 13 0--20 Indiana 0 7 0 0--7 San Francisco 0 0 0 0--0 Tulsa 0 0 3 7--10 Georgetown 7 14 7 0--28 Denver 0 0 6 7--13 SOUTH Georgia Tech 7 0 0 0--7 Alabama 0 0 14 6--20 North Carolina State 20 0 0 7--27 Wake Forest 0 0 7 7--14 Duke 7 14 7 7--35 George Washington...
...Pennsylvania 0 14 7 0-21 Brown 14 7 0 7-28 Western Reserve 0 7 7 13-33 Syracuse 7 7 0 7-21 Penn State 6 7 7 13-33 Scranton 0 6 0 0-6 Boston Univ. 20 0 13 13-46 Georgetown 0 0 0 0-0 Fordham 7 7 7 21-42 SOUTH Tennessee 7 14 14 0-35 No. Carolina 0 0 0 0-7 Gerogia 0 7 0 0-7 Alabama 0 7 0 7-14 Duke 0 0 14 13-27 Georgia Tech 0 7 0 7-14 MIDWEST Michigan...
...Ohio, mother of Presidents, is the only one of the 48 states which does not have a street named after it in the nation's capital. But when Ohioans last week proposed renaming Georgetown's Canal Road, the Georgetown Citizens' Association rose up in wrath. It had been Canal Road since George Washington's day, and the Georgetowners wanted to keep it that...