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Lafayette and Amherst College are conducting the balloting under the auspices of the student newspapers of the two colleges, while the Colgate maroon will sponsor a poll similar to the CRIMSON's in order to determine the prohibition sentiment at that institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE ADDITIONAL COLLEGES TO AID IN PROHIBITION DRIVE | 3/22/1930 | See Source »

Captain Jessup of Washington toughened up with Captain Kelly of Chicago in the same lead-silver mine in Idaho last summer. Kelly dug the pay-dirt when they met in moleskins. Eighteen completed Maroon passes gained 305 yards, Chicago 26, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Indianamen who had sworn not to shave till their team had won a game went home bristling after eleven Minnesota Gophers in gold & maroon jerseys had spent an afternoon putting simple but energetic plays through Indiana's defense. Minnesota 19, Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...speak to the crowd but stood as though unobserved. The King, looking greatly improved, chatted briskly with the duke of Connaught. "P'incess Lilybet's" small, creamy elbows rested on the window ledge. Sober, fussy, coatless, were the Lascelles boys, clad in tan shirts, maroon cravats. Princess Mary wore pink. The Queen, wearing blue and the royal pearls, was vexed by a noisome blue bottle fly on the window pane. Taking a sheet of paper she squashed the offender, after four tries. Edward of Wales talked with his father, not his mother. When Viscount Lascelles lingered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...giant Maroon right-hander was driven to the showers in the next inning. Two infield errors, a hit by pitched ball, and four singles were responsible for five more runs, and incidentally the appearance of Woodsfin, who was greeted with a barrage of four hits, including a triple by Nugent and a double by G. E. Donaghy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE POUNDS' OUT WIN OVER MAROON IN RAGGED GAME | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

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