Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale went into its 61st game with Princeton a not-too-heavy favorite, because it is legend that "anything can happen" in that series. But nothing unexpected happened. On the first play after the opening kickoff, Clinton Frank, Yale's hefty captain, whipped through the Princeton line, splattered 79 yards through the mud for a touchdown. Thereafter he scored three more, gained 190 of Yale's 280 yards. Score: Yale 26, Princeton...
Like his fellow-islanders, Terangi could not stand confinement, and he wanted to get back to Marama. He broke jail so many times that he became a legend. Each time he tried to get away he added from two to five years to his sentence. Eight years had passed before he hit on the scheme of pretending to hang himself so that the jailer would come in and bring the keys. He killed a sentry with a blow of his fist, paddled an outrigger 600 miles back to his own atoll. He had just found Marama again when a hurricane...
...decade sportsfans have known that the "Carey" of Ring Lardner's immortal Alibi Ike is only a faint camouflage for the bowlegged, wisecracking figure of Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel, 46, baseball's No. 1 living legend. Last week Casey Stengel got ready to enlarge the legend...
...quite knows how much of the legend is Casey and how much is the imagination of Sportswriters Ring Lardner, W. O. ("Bill") McGeehan, Ed Anthony, Joe Williams and friends. The legend was built on a prosaic baseball career that began in Kansas City in 1910. In 1912 Casey (for K. C.) went up to the National League as outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1918 he was traded to Pittsburgh, then to Philadelphia, New York and Boston of the National League...
...last week President J. A. Robert Quinn of the Boston Bees (onetime Braves) called a group of sportswriters into his office to add an item to the Stengel legend. All of them understood that President Quinn's first two choices for manager of the Bees were Donie Bush, manager of the minor-league Minneapolis Millers, and Gabby Hartnett, catcher for the Chicago Cubs, who for a brief period last summer, managed the Cubs while they were topping the National League. But neither of them was available. So President Quinn picked up his telephone and asked the operator...