Word: marooning
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...note in TIME, October 11, p. 35, under SPORT, "Eleven maroon-sweatered rakehells" referring to the University of Chicago football team. I presume your sport writer thought he was being clever, but it is just such blotches as this on the face of your otherwise fair paper that make booster-readers writhe...
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...
...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...