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Those who remain lapse only occasionally into the rambunctious sort of hoopla that plagues other state campuses. There was at least one panty raid two years ago, and now and then a crisis on the gridiron will turn the whole town upside down. But though S.U.I.'s field house is big enough for an entire indoor football field and though its football team is rapidly rising to the top of the Big Ten, the university's interests on the whole lie elsewhere. "Unless there is a spirit of learning here," said President Jessup, "unless there is a genuine...
...nearly all of the political gridiron shows in Oklahoma, there is a catchy tune that proclaims: "There's always an aroma in the State of Oklahoma." Last week half a million Oklahomans went to the polls in a Democratic primary and, sure enough, there was an aroma...
...football season proved its worth as a training ground for '28. Despite the gridiron loss to Yale, French had shown himself a fast and deceptive halfback under Coach Horween's double wings attack, and had been named captain for the coming season. John Tudor climaxed a brilliant season at left wing by being elected captain of the 1928-29 hockey team. Forrester Clark was elected leader of the crew. In the winter and spring of '28 J. L. Reid was already showing the outstanding long distance form that was to bring him the '29 track captaincy. R. B. Whitbeck...
Reminiscing on Harvard's athletic prowess, Director of Athletics Thomas D. Bolles observed that in '29s heyday, gridiron enthusiasm (in paid admissions) ran about 80 per cent ahead of modern day spirit...
...case of juvenile humor, but not so the Princeton administration, which felt the issue was the culmination of a series of Harvard slurs on its good name. The incident led into a string of articles appearing in national magazines which dragged "dirty football" and Signet rings onto the gridiron for a public airing which did little good, and only intensified already heated feeling on the place of the football giant in undergraduate life...