Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, 15,000 Negro fans gathered for the annual Lincoln-Howard game, Harvard-Yale game of Negro football (started in 1894). In recent years, Lincoln and Howard, once the Big Two of colored collegiate athletics, have been overshadowed by Johnny-come-lately Negro football teams, but their annual set-to is still the traditional Big Game of the year...
Last week the fans near went past themselves. They cheered lustily for Ralph Oves, Lincoln's towering center, who stands out in the line like a moon on a dark night (Oves is the only white player in Negro football). They set off firecrackers, one of which, mistaken for the timekeeper's gun, sent the players to the sidelines. They tooted piccolos during timeouts, chanted A-well-a-take-um-a-Joe (crapshooters' lullaby...
...fourth quarter, when Lincoln was leading 14-to-0, half the spectators were milling around on the field, at times crowding the players into a 60-foot square. Finally, unable to handle the crowd, officials called off the game. Lincoln, leading 14-to-7, claimed victory. Howard protested on the grounds that Lincoln, as host, should have kept the field clear. Irate coaches appealed to the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association to decide...
...buying books for the inmates of Stillman infirmary will be held this year by Euno R. Hobbing '41, Lincoln Bloomfield '40, and Tuder Gardiner '40, it was announced last night by Phil C. Neal, president of the Student Council...
Queerest-looking of the lot was Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens, one of Georgia's most brilliant lawyers, an admirer of Lincoln and Davis' bitterest foe. Weighing around 90 Ibs., hollow-chested, skeleton-faced, he was so tiny that a fellow-traveler once said to him: "Sonny, get up and give your seat to the gentleman." He read the Anatomy of Melancholy for his violent fits of blues, once cried out: "What have I not suffered from a look!" His good pal was hulking, roundheaded, roaring, witty, Rabelaisian Secretary of State Robert Toombs, great orator and charmer...