Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-two terrible hours later Commander Henry Coyle's Coast Guard cutter Mendota picked up the last of the 21 survivors who clung to bobbing bits of debris. Captain Coufopandelis bore a painful gash on the bridge of his nose, the bite of a sailor who shared the captain's improvised raft and went mad from drinking salt water. The others, six of whom were saved by the C. D. Mallory tanker Swiftsure, told a gruesome tale. The sea had suddenly become alive with sharks. Helpless comrades could only look on as the man-eaters tore the bodies...
...shortsightedness in repressing labor for so many years." He urged a special labor law for all maritime labor, including longshoremen, on the lines of the Railway Labor Act with a mediation board. He also recommends a Government training school for seamen to be run by the Coast Guard. James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training ship...
...echoed the adolescent sentiments of many another young man who becomes a famed college football player, cashes in his reputation for a job upon graduation, then spends the rest of his life remembering his "great days." Such a one is Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfinger. a Minneapolis boy who played guard for Yale and was on Walter Camp's original All-America football teams of 1889-90-91. After graduation Pudge Heffelfinger played a little professional football, coached at the University of California, went into the insurance business. Now approaching 70, still ruddy and hale, Pudge Heffelfinger is serving...
...most obvious candidates for letters who remained benched were: Gibby Winter who played a bang-up game at end in the Army battle, Bob-Barkin and Tom Healey who have soon considerable Varsity service at tackles, and Dave Glueck at guard...
Heading Yale's reserves will be a second backfield of Bud Humphrey, who passes and kicks, Ed Collins, Bill Snavely (brother of last year's guard Jeff), and Don Henry. Kev Rafferty and Bill Moody are the reserve ends, Cy Taylor and Brown Watson the tackles, Bill Dickens, Felix Caracciolo, and Stu Hemingway, the first two lettermen, the guards and Bill Stack, last year's Freshman captain, the center...