Word: guards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell smashed straight down the field in the final quarter on long gains by Mel Gordon and Joe Lyford, carrying the pigskin to the Eliot three, where Norn Blotner took it over on a line back, riding in on guard Bud Call's back...
...Lowell Bellboys scored their season's first touchdown midway in the fourth period to overcome a lead gained by Eliot a few minutes before when Dan Melia, chunky guard, booted a perfect placement from the Lowell 20 at an angle...
...exchanges (14) than anyone else in the U. S. Way back in 1930 Jerry Cuppia suggested a paid president for the Curb, but he might as well have proposed to move the Curb back outdoors. His continued pressure for reform finally got him in so bad with the Old Guard that it blocked his re-election as a governor early this year...
Undaunted, Jerry Cuppia kept demanding reform, joined forces with such men as Howard Sykes, independent broker, Henry C. Brunie of L. A. Mathey & Co., Theodore V. D. Berdell of Berdell Brothers. Eventually the Old Guard permitted the appointment of a committee to investigate reorganization. The hollowness of the committee's proposal was echoed by the silence with which SEC Chairman William O. Douglas met it. Furthermore, it outraged many a Curb member with the suggestion that any who also belonged to the Big Board or were associated with a member be penalized...
Last week the reformers finally forced the Old Guard to capitulate and offered a plan genuinely patterned on that devised by the Conway Committee for the Big Board, including paid president, public representation, democratic committee rule. This time SEC Chairman Douglas commented: "Forthright and realistic." Curb members, who are voting officially this week, showed their sentiments by accepting the plan 275-to-1 in a straw poll which was still incomplete at week...