Word: marooning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never has one of Coach Alonzo Stagg's Chicago teams resorted to open football unless desperately pressed. Eleven maroon-sweatered rakehells amazed 40,000 spectators by drop-kicking and passing their way to victory against a fast team from the University of Florida. S. Rouse, left half, kicked the two winning goals. Score: Chicago 12, Florida...
Playing through a serious rainstorm over the windswept Knollwood course at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, the University of Chicago's "Maroon" team slashed drives from wet tees, mashied onto muggy greens, sank putts into brimful cups, to win the Big 10* golf championship last week. Best golf for the day was played by Ralph Kunstadter, University of Illinois, with two rounds...
...order that our readers may have a breath of the bracing, intellectual air that pervades American colleges, we quote the following editorial from, the Daily Maroon of the University of Chicago for October...
...scrimmage was an end run of 13 yards, which resulted in the only touchdown, and on only one other occasion did he make as much as ten yards. In the covering of punts, great improvement was also displayed. Frequently the Tiger forwards broke through the line to throw the Maroon backs for losses, Colgate losing 48 yards in this manner, while rushing the ball only for 94 yards. In the matter of ends Roper's chief problem appears solved, for both Lea and Moeser gave sterling performances on Saturday...
...condition of the ball. The forward passing, considered Princeton's forte at the beginning of the season, was very weak, however, only one out of five tosses being successful, for a gain of a scant yard, while one intercepted by Colgate was the direct cause of the Maroon touchdown. The tiger team also apparently lacks the punch necessary for gaining when within striking distance of the opponents' goal...