Word: maroons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Maroon, undergraduate newspaper at the University of Chicago, announced recently that about 500 "loyal graduates" were planning on a "secret meeting to decide on a way" to lift the football team out of the doldrums...
...paper stated that further details of the meeting would be revealed later. The hapless Maroon eleven entertains the Ohio State Buckeyes is a homecoming game tomorrow at Stage Field. The Daily Maroon attacked the school's football policy in an editorial and suggested that the alumni be encouraged to buy up a good football team...
Also Rons. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin and Chicago looked last week like the Little Five of the Big Ten. Feeblest is Chicago. Once - in the star-spangled days of Amos Alonzo Stagg - the Maroons shared honors with Michigan as the top team in the Midwest. But in the last decade, under the regime of President Robert M. Hutchins, football has been de-emphasized, its teams play like scrubs (154 points have been scored against them in four games this season) and its alumni bow their heads on Saturday nights. "We are a big joke in the eyes of the American...
Barring unexpected injuries in practices, Harvard will have every man ready for the Maroon next Saturday with the exception of an end, Joe Koufman, who is still bothered by an injury of last week...
...Ivan Lajos' Nazis Can't Win. Beaming like newlyweds, they received newspapermen. The Duchess was bright ("looked even better than when she left") in a gold dress, a gold and black checked coat, the Duke proper ("looked several years younger") in gray double-breasted flannels and a maroon-and-white...