Word: maroons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago adopted as an official song "Flag of Maroon" by Donald Randall Richberg, '01, Director of the National Emergency Council. The song is one of six written by Student Richberg who, no grind, also edited the University of Chicago Weekly, won a Varsity "C" for the mile walk, helped found the Order of the Dragon's Tooth (later Phi Gamma Delta), sang in the Glee Club, led cheers, was graduated with no honors. "Flag of Maroon...
When the University of Minnesota's football team routed Chicago 35-to-7 last week with five authoritative marches to the Maroon goalline, sportswriters began talking of Minnesota not as the greatest team of 1934, but as one of the greatest of all time. To many an oldster it rated with Coach "Hurry Up" Yost's "point-a-minute" Michigan teams of 1901-04, Pittsburgh's invincible 1916 combination and Notre Dame in the days of the "Four Horsemen...
...begins tomorrow. With four-in-hand ties, white flannels, and maroon blazers (made even more romantic by the golden lyres on the pockets) Leroy Anderson sends onto the field a team of renewed and revitalized sex appeal...
East 67th Street was roped off and two maroon Rolls-Royces were drawn up on the sidewalk in front of the Vanderbilt house so that Mrs. Whitney, Countess Széchényi and their brigadier brother might step quickly into them. On Fifth Avenue, curious crowds watched these and 14 other limousines sweep royally downtown. Three vans bore away the flowers, some of which earned Florists Wadley & Smythe $5,000. At South Ferry on the Battery the funeral procession rolled aboard two chartered ferryboats, to bear Mrs. Vanderbilt in her bronze casket across the same body of water...
...floor the same men that played in their last Harvard game, with Captain McDowell, who netted eleven points in that tilt at the pivot position. HARVARD COLUMBIA Merry, r.f. l.f., Tomb Ferriter, l.f. r.f., Asselin Boys, c. c., McDowell Henderson, r.g. l.g., Meisel Fletcher, l.g. r.g., Maroon...