Word: jock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Rose Bowl game of 1937, University of Pittsburgh's victorious Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland asked Athletic Director W. Don Harrison for a handful of spending money so that the team, having just netted Pitt $95,000 by beating Washington, could celebrate in Hollywood. Director Harrison primly refused. Jock shelled out the money himself, fought the matter out in Pittsburgh until Harrison resigned that March. It was then that Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman turned from firing "liberal" teachers to purifying Pitt's frankly subsidized football team...
...Bowman plan not only proposed to put Pitt on a simon-pure basis, eliminating 35 annual football scholarships for freshmen and other forms of subsidy, but it restricted coaches from newspaper writing, radio appearances, endorsements of athletic goods. Jock Sutherland stood for all these things with fairly good grace, willing enough to die for a simon-pure Pitt if the opposition was to be equally simon-pure. But when new Athletic Director Jimmy Hagan set out to fill the Pitt Stadium, toward which Jock's teams had earned $600,000, by signing up Ohio State and Minnesota, Jock Sutherland...
Last week he quit while he and Pitt football were good, and his resignation was quickly accepted by Chancellor Bowman. On the campus students wore black mourning bands with JOCK printed on them in silver; the student paper, The Pitt News, printed two blistering columns blaming Jock's departure on "blundering...
Amateur football may be all right for the smaller schools, but not for really great institutions like Pitt," claimed one of 3,500 students who staged a two-hour walk-out to protest the resignation of Jock Sutherland...
...more commands. Rattling food pans and garbage cans, the Montgomerys for a memorable 15 minutes had every listening dog in England in a dither. When a Montgomery Dalmatian greedily chewed up a dog biscuit before the microphone, dog-owners reported widespread mouth watering. When Montgomery fox terriers, Peter and Jock, got to growling, hackles rose the length and breadth of Britain. When Tippler, a tough Corgi, refused to "speak," every obedient canine listener in Albion spoke...