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Most newsworthy of last week's doings among football coaches was the resignation of Yale's Dr. Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens, head coach since 1928. He transferred to Yale from Washburn College (Kans.) in 1922, played halfback on the Yale team in 1923. When a new rule made him ineligible the next year he became an assistant coach. Record of Yale teams under Coach Stevens: won 21, lost n, tied 8. The 1932 record: won 2, lost 2, tied 3. His ostensible reason for retiring: to devote more time to surgery...
...Wolf, who had come from St. Louis to solicit funds for the Poor Orphans Home of Jerusalem. Day after Merchant Bormaster's death, Rabbi Wolf gave this up and began the prayers. Daily, for nearly seven months, Rabbi Wolf would intone: ". . . Deevroh Be'olmoh Rabbo Sh'mai Veyiskadash Yisgadal" (Magnified and sanctified be His Great Name in the world he created . . . ). After that the Bormaster family told Rabbi Wolf they could finish out the eleven months of Kaddish themselves. Fortnight ago, charging he had been promised "reasonable compensation" for his services, Rabbi Wolf brought suit against...
Flying the mail one night nearly two years ago, Pilot Mai B. Freeburg of Northwest Airways spied a flaming trestle on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Remembering that he had just passed a crack passenger train thundering down from Minneapolis, Pilot Freeburg put about, flagged the express with his emergency landing flares before it could plunge into the Chippewa River. Because Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr. was aboard the train, Pilot Freeburg had made national news...
...miles in 20 hours. Police, trappers, posse with airplanes, bombs, after one weary mai How I wish he might have reached Alaska...
...told them that college football players spent 109 hours on play and practice as compared with in hours of extracurricular effort by debaters, 122 by lacrosse players, 132 by dramatic club members, 186 by oarsmen and 241 by college journalists. For president, the Coaches Association chose Dr. Marvin Allen ("Mai") Stevens of Yale to succeed J. F. ("Chick") Meehan who recently resigned from N. Y. U. to coach at Manhattan College. Tall, quiet, solemn, Mai Stevens went to Yale as a transfer from Washburn College. Kan., paid his tuition as night watchman in an undertaking establishment. He was halfback...