Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neil Stahley, who was in charge of the Yardling elevens last fall, will become field coach of the Varsity staff. Joe Hill will be given the task of whipping the Freshman line into shape. Hill played guard and center for three years at Colgate, graduating in 1932. The following year he took over Varsity coaching duties at Wellesley High School, and joined the Harvard Jayvee staff...
...Assembly passed a resolution censuring the State House guard for permitting the "vulgar and burlesque" demonstrations of the week, requesting Governor Hoffman to prevent their recurrence. Assembly and Senate both passed resolutions requesting the Federal Government to return for relief funds $20,000,000 collected from New Jersey taxpayers. Then, unable to think of anything else to do, both Houses adjourned for two days, their leaders planning to confer in the more congenial atmosphere of a clubhouse. Encountering no opposition from the State House guard, Leader Cooke and "Speaker" Spain and their followers settled down once more on the Assembly...
...month of active warfare in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa was still 140 miles ahead of the nearest Italian column. Emperor Haile Selassie was neither killed nor captured. Crown Prince Asfa Wassan had returned to Addis Ababa to take over the Government under orders from his father. Remnants of the Imperial Guard drifting back to the Capital still had their rifles, bags of dried peas and the capacity to put up a fight. In the south things were different. The bloodiest battle of the entire War was raging last week around a collection of water holes and mud huts known as Sassa...
Recruiting for the territorials (Britain's National Guard) is even more serious. Short on troops to be sent to India and Egypt, the General Staff has decreed that practically all territorial regiments be immediately converted into antiaircraft battalions, thus liberating regular army detachments for service abroad. Bank clerks and stockjobbers, drilling once a week, are expected to master the complexities of high-angle range tables, multiple machine guns, acoustic range finders...
...hard-playing, fast-moving teams which in eleven years won 66 games, lost 25, tied nine. Two of the teams which his new charges have to face next autumn are Notre Dame, piloted by Elmer Layden, another of the Four Horsemen, and Purdue, coached by Noble Kizer, who played guard on that same famed eleven...